Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure to talk about sexual needs may mean that the individual does not consider it to be a problem , or that he or she finds it embarrassing to discuss such matters . |
| 2 | They 've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools , where they found it hard to fit in . |
| 3 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 4 | This seems to me just false , although I find it hard to show it convincingly . |
| 5 | Although I found it impossible to imagine such a conversation with Mrs Monro , I had no doubt that Lili was telling the truth , and whatever the psychological convolutions the facts were there . |
| 6 | And although I found it hard to understand that you did n't want to meet her again that evening , I accepted that she was possibly ‘ not your type ’ . |
| 7 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 8 | It was at this point , partly because I was so nervous , that I felt it necessary to build her weight up a little , so I fed her up and overdid it , with the result that she got above her ideal flying weight . |
| 9 | Let's just say that I deem it wiser to get a head start on them . ’ |
| 10 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 11 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 12 | You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master . |
| 13 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |
| 14 | She was such a sweet-natured , generous girl — I had never before nor have I since met anyone so naturally , if indiscriminately , kind and loving — that I found it hard to deny her anything . |
| 15 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |
| 16 | ‘ Not that I find it easy to deny what everyone else in Europe apparently finds truthful . |
| 17 | There are so many ‘ explanations ’ that I find it helpful to subdivide them into categories . |
| 18 | ‘ All I meant was that I find it hard to imagine myself setting up home with someone else again . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am so incensed , that I find it difficult to remain objective about it . ’ |
| 20 | When these are taken into account I have to confess that I find it difficult to understand the additional insights and explanations which the Marxist method offers . |
| 21 | I still got a bit of coffee left after I finish eating the doughnut , so I sip it slow to make it last , and look round the caff . |
| 22 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 23 | " Tim was four years older than me , and quite clearly destined to be something successful in life , " he would remember , " so I thought it better to stay with him . |
| 24 | ‘ So I thought it best to lie low for a while ; keep the nose clean by cutting out the rowdies . |
| 25 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 26 | Well , I was there , behind the bar , standing in for Marcus , for a few minutes he said , more like two hours , so I saw it all develop . |
| 27 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 28 | So that Clara , although she found it hard to believe that she herself was thus chosen , had no alternative to believing it . |
| 29 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |
| 30 | He was waiting for her to open the conversation , but his manner was so cold and distant that she found it difficult to begin . |