Example sentences of "[vb past] find [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did find however that histological type and admission type overall had a significant adverse effect on mortality and overall we feel that written ev evidence of counselling for retrograde ejaculation was poor and was not acceptable . |
| 2 | All the same , he did find eventually a settled domesticity with them . |
| 3 | What I did find very distressing in his remarks , er were basically in respect of some of the savings . |
| 4 | I never did find out what the seminar was about ! |
| 5 | Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation . |
| 6 | I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence . |
| 7 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 8 | Never did find out what they had against him . ’ |
| 9 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
| 10 | I did find out that Noël Compton-Burnett had been a fellow of King 's , and had been killed in the war . |
| 11 | But when I did find out I was profoundly relieved to know that all these troubling fantasies which had been playing twice nightly in my head were , in fact , shared by others . |
| 12 | There were rules when she did find out . |
| 13 | I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 . |
| 14 | Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it . |
| 15 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 16 | ‘ Not directly but we did find out that Inez had been getting letters with Spanish stamps . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ As you wish , although you can hardly imagine that Jones would mind if he did find out . |
| 18 | Although , to be fair , if Phena , for whatever reason , did find out that you were David 's granddaughter we 'd never hear the last of it . ’ |
| 19 | I did find out from someone else . ’ |
| 20 | When I did find out what he was thinking , I must say I was surprised . |
| 21 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 22 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
| 23 | Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen |
| 24 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |