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Example sentences for "found that"

  • By his arch replies I found that I was in company with an original--a man that might stretch forth his arms in the wilderness without fear, and like Paul, grasp an adder without harm.

  • As they assumed their natural sizes and the rhubarb leaves that had before towered above their heads now barely covered their feet, they looked around the garden and found that no person was visible save themselves.

  • She said she still loved me, but I found that I no longer loved her.

  • Then he sat up, found that no bones were broken, and gazed around him.

  • I found that no power can do away with the Green Monkey.

  • Some days he found that he was all at sea as to what they were talking about--things they had arranged to do or that they had done in his absence.

  • He found that it would take a long time to make friends.

  • Since he feigned to believe in her married state he found that he had to carry out the part.

  • When I had read two or three of the small hours away and was as wide awake as ever, I found that a drink furnished the soporific effect.

  • I, who had worked with men, found that I didn't know the first thing about real work.

  • Back in California a year later, recovering from scurvy, I found that my father was dead and that I was the head and the sole bread-winner of a household.

  • Perhaps it will be found that just in proportion as some have been placed in outward circumstances above the savage, others have been degraded below him.

  • For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found that, by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

  • I have tried trade but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil.

  • Gradually I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter, though I wrote them at stated intervals.

  • Having made an outline of the subject, I found that, before I could proceed with it successfully, a knowledge of anatomy was indispensable to enable me accurately to delineate the muscles of the figures.

  • And where men or nations have broken down, it will almost invariably be found that neglect of little things was the rock on which they split.

  • However, I found that a plank, serving for a seat, was unfastened, and with that I brought the boat to the bank and scrambled on shore.

  • When I awoke, I found that my hostess had moved from where she had been sitting, and now sat between me and the fourth door.

  • There I found that it communicated with a circular corridor, divided from it only by two rows of red columns.

  • It had taken him eight days, he said, to get from Exeter to Plymouth; whither he found that most of the troops had been drafted off from Exeter.

  • At Porlock I found that it was too true; and the women of the town were in great distress, for the King had always been popular with them: the men, on the other hand, were forecasting what would be likely to ensue.

  • I found that most of them were bigoted Romanists and Miguelites at heart.

  • I found that he had been persecuted much whilst the old system was in its vigour, and that he entertained a hearty aversion to it.

  • I confess that in one instance I have not been able to carry my point; though I assure you that I did not yield until I found that it was absolutely of no avail to offer any further opposition.

  • But I found that gentleman so involved in a multiplicity of business that it was utterly impossible for him to afford me either; and though he was kind enough to promise to make inquiry, etc.

  • And not only so, but nations possessing great slave or serf populations, as was the care in America and Russia, found that considerations of humanity were supported by considerations of interest, and set their bondmen free.

  • When he got down on to the boat I found that he was wearing a coarse gray woollen overcoat, a manufacture that had been introduced into the South during the rebellion.

  • At all events he was not invited, and soon I found that he was corresponding with some paper (I have now forgotten which one), thus violating his word either expressed or implied.

  • He said that when he came along past home, he found that he was the only man of the regiment remaining with Lee's army, so he just dropped out, and now wanted to surrender himself.

  • And then, when he found that this be all right, he try to move them all alone.

  • When I ran to push it open, I found that it was hopelessly fast.

  • On examining this subject when I returned to Linyanti, I found that, according to Dr.

  • The old man, I could perceive, often endeavoured to encourage his children, as sometimes I found that he called them, to cast off their melancholy.

  • I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.

  • Besides, I found that my understanding improved so much with every day's experience that I was unwilling to commence this undertaking until a few more months should have added to my sagacity.

  • On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain plants; each according; ever after; experimental work; found again; found also; found amongst; found anywhere; found convenient; found elsewhere; found means; found more; found native; found necessary; found ourselves; found out; found plenty; found that; found the; found themselves; found under; found water; founded upon; knew nothing; rather firm; working together