Example sentences of "and find it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 I spent the summer at the college on the Intermediate Command Course and found it depressing to see just how little research was being sponsored or carried out there . |
| 2 | I 'm about 5'7 ’ and found it fitted me fine , although as with all sacks , it took a couple of days of walking to get the best adjustment . |
| 3 | I 've used the Alpamayo for backpacking and Nordic ski touring and found it very stable . |
| 4 | He liked him very much , and felt the enchantment , and found it almost a spell . |
| 5 | He dreaded his own Bible class and found it hard to keep teenagers in order . |
| 6 | Ramsey had read the life of Archbishop Randall Davidson by George Bell and found it very depressing — a noble and unspoilt man inside a sickening system — ‘ the wire-pulling , the hedging , and energy spent on things that do n't matter , and all the sitting on the fence ’ . |
| 7 | But he had also read the life of Bishop Charles Gore and found it inspiring , so it was not always sickening to work as a bishop . |
| 8 | In the farmhouse he practised putting on the gaiters and found it a struggle . |
| 9 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 10 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |
| 11 | He stayed in digs in a colliery village at the time and found it equally possible to integrate easily into the local community . |
| 12 | As the train pulled out of the station she searched back for Moran 's face among the crowd and found it and waved . |
| 13 | In Stamford , where it was raining , Inspector Burden went to a country house supposedly occupied by a man named McCloy and found it deserted , its doors locked and its garden overgrown . |
| 14 | Bawden loved his own work and found it soothing to live surrounded by it . |
| 15 | She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil . |
| 16 | The Gothic imagination dwelt on the mystery , and found it more productive of nightmares than of dreams of paradise . |
| 17 | Clarissa loved dancing and found it the most exciting time of her life . |
| 18 | I bought the magazine , Shannonside , and found it to be very interesting . |
| 19 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 20 | I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really . |
| 21 | He looked again and found it was |
| 22 | All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help . |
| 23 | He could not understand Modigliani 's disregard for both his health and his money and found it shocking . |
| 24 | I came here briefly last year and found it the most comfortable of cities to walk about in , so I 'm here for two months to learn Spanish . ’ |
| 25 | The slower tester ran just below 70 per cent of MHR and found it uncomfortable to push any harder for 10 minutes , let alone 20 . |
| 26 | Stirling went twice to Benina and found it deserted . |
| 27 | In spite of this he was sexually very experienced and attractive to women and found it difficult to turn down their advances . |
| 28 | In general , most Smiths fans ‘ tolerated ’ the record and found it ‘ all right ’ . |
| 29 | She also had severe perceptual problems and found it hard to recognize the different parts of her body or to know where objects were in relation to herself . |
| 30 | I was not quite five feet eight inches high , weighed only nine and a half stone , and found it uncomfortable to stand without arch-supports even for the duration of a hymn in church . |