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Example sentences for "found out"

  • And then I found out, sir, what your baciar-di- mani, and bowings and reverences were worth.

  • That obliging and imperturbable person was, I found out, a gentleman of fortune--a term which implies that he was not a gentleman at all and had no kind of fortune but what he could secure of his neighbours.

  • It was not so easy to leave it as to reach it, I found out.

  • But this I am in pain how to do without doing myself wrong, and the end I had of preparing a justification to myself hereafter, when the faults of the Navy come to be found out: however, I will do it in the best manner I can.

  • He told me, also, the manner of it, of his going home so late drinking with his mistress, and manner of having it found out.

  • Found out, you mean," was the woman's reply.

  • And, Alida, dear, I thought at first that I was taken by your good traits and your education and all that, but I found out at last that I had fallen in love with YOU.

  • In dreary despondency she thought, "They've found out about me.

  • Not that she was a greater sinner than many who remained behind, only she was unlucky enough or stupid enough to be found out.

  • Father said the fellow turned all the colors of the rainbow, for he thought he had covered up his tracks so cleverly that he would never be found out.

  • I wondered very much who this boy was, and, later on, I found out that he was another of Miss Laura's brothers, and his name was Ned.

  • If he didn't there was nothing but the State's prison ahead of him, for he needn't think he was going to gull and cheat all the world, and never be found out.

  • The next morning I found out that it was Miss Laura.

  • He found out that he was a poor, ignorant lad, half starved by a drunken father.

  • All of this made me many bitter enemies, as I found out when my next book appeared.

  • At length he came, and I found out that he was not at all comfortable in his London practice which was of a nature uncongenial to him; further, that he did not get on with his partners.

  • He examined a hundred different ways--none of them would answer; for in even the very obscurest and secretest of them there was always the fatal defect of a risk, a chance, a possibility that he might be found out.

  • As soon as he found out, he went to the owners of the estate and made them a bid for it.

  • I found out what it meant--it was hunger.

  • If the doctor knew he'd found out he could stand on his feet he'd likely write and tell Mester Craven.

  • We've found out where Mr. Fitzgerald was on the night of the murder, so he will be safe.

  • When I touched him he fell into the other corner of the cab, and then I found out he was dead.

  • I've found out that he came in at a time which corresponds to all his movements after one o'clock on Thursday night, and this is the missing glove, which clearly belonged to Whyte.

  • I had some experience in meeting people and in trying to transact some of the minor business connected with our farm and I found out that I had no chance along that line as long as I stammered.

  • I found out, then, one of the fundamental characteristics of stammering--its intermittent tendency.

  • I found out that I couldn't do much with even an elevator boy's job at three dollars a week unless I could talk.

  • Afterward I found out that I had been made the victim of the first dark and irreligious trick played on me by Ed Collier.

  • They have tried to kill my Trivulce; our children have been near unto death in the flames; and I should have allowed any means to be unused by which the guilty one may be found out?

  • The criminal has to be found out, and to be punished: hence I request your assistance, from this moment, in the name of the Law.

  • I found out in Sunday School, the day the minister taught our class, that it was selfish.

  • We thought he was trying to be funny, until we found out that he was quite in earnest.

  • I didn't know it then, but after the measles struck in I found out it was.

  • He introduced your name," I said, "and the moment he found out who I was he plunged into talk with me.

  • First, I found out there was a real Colonel Clay, in the Indian Army.

  • His picture, we found out, was the real Maria Vanrenen, and a genuine Rembrandt, which he had merely deposited for cleaning and restoring at the suspicious dealer's.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also shown; flying visit; found afterwards; found amongst; found both; found even; found here; found himself; found means; found myself; found native; found near; found necessary; found nothing; found out; found them; found time; found under; found upon; found wild; founded upon; gave command; glass plates; heavy swell; strong tendency; will take the liberty