Example sentences of "he [vb past] find out " in BNC.
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| 1 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 2 | He tried to find out . |
| 3 | Once he 'd found out that I was applying to go to art school he opened up quite a bit and we began to talk . |
| 4 | He 'd found out about Corrie . |
| 5 | He 'd found out that there was a public mortuary in Bala and to get on to my GP about it . |
| 6 | He 'd found out there was money aboard . ’ |
| 7 | He 'd been exactly the same once before when he 'd found out that Pete had seen Last Tango in Paris ( ‘ Yeah , but what did they actually do ? ’ ) and now , as then , Pete had taken care to fine-tune Ted 's frustration to the point of obsession . |
| 8 | And in his own character he 'd found out what he wanted to know . |
| 9 | He 'd thought that it was a nickname , that it meant nothing special , and they 'd let him go on thinking that way until he 'd found out different . |
| 10 | He was n't sure what he 'd found out or how to phrase it . |
| 11 | There were more important things he needed to find out ; things only the Doctor could tell him . |
| 12 | Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him . |
| 13 | ‘ As you wish , although you can hardly imagine that Jones would mind if he did find out . |
| 14 | He had found out her secret and she hated him . |
| 15 | Jordi had been in Salamanca only one day but he had found out where I was living . |
| 16 | He had barred Anne from the house after he had found out that the pair of them had spent an hour in the local pub after shopping one evening . |
| 17 | In the CI5 computer room , Bodie reported what he had found out about the girl to Cowley . |
| 18 | One day Sapt brought me some news — he had found out where the King was . |
| 19 | Li Yuan shivered , remembering the day when he had found out the truth about his world ; recollecting suddenly the dream he had had — his vision of a vast mountain of bones , filling the plain from horizon to horizon . |
| 20 | He had found out what awaited him , and removed himself from the scene long enough , he had hoped , to escape the judgement . |
| 21 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 22 | Corbett left the tavern elated with what he had found out and they continued their journey to the outskirts of Oxford . |
| 23 | She was wise enough to understand , now that her fear was leaving her , that it was Dr Neil 's very real concern which had made him so sharp with her when he had found out who it was he had rescued . |
| 24 | When he had found out that Mike lived in a flat he 'd invited him to come and enjoy their garden any time , but without really expecting to see him . |
| 25 | According to the recently discovered personal notes , however , Weinberger was aware of a November 1985 arms shipment of US Hawk anti-aircraft missiles from Israel to Iran before the end of the year , despite earlier claims that he had found out about it only in 1986 . |
| 26 | Shiona wondered irritably how he had found out . |
| 27 | None the less it is clear that Marx felt that before he could complete a book on pre-capitalist societies , he had to find out much more about these societies and their transformations . |
| 28 | He had to find out how far Green had gone , and soon made himself known to him on the pretext of helping him . |
| 29 | All Spike did was call her back from Greece on St Valentine 's day to say that he had to find out who he really was . |
| 30 | The conversation was general for a while then John excused himself , saying he had to find out more details about the job from his father . |