Example sentences of "find it [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 2 | ‘ He wanted to find it some electricity ! ’ |
| 3 | I ca n't , I 'll have to find it some other time but er right yellow book two , let's have a look yellow book two . |
| 4 | She found it all extraordinary . |
| 5 | The waiter found it all very amusing though Sandison was not quite sure if the laughter came from the story itself or his own clumsy attempts to tell it . |
| 6 | The Wilsons however found it all a bit much and thinking their tank threatened , have moved the fish on to Blackpool 's Sealife Centre . |
| 7 | Some of the more , er , cheerful clubbers staggered over the cobbles of the outdoor Coronation Street set , but studio staff had few complaints : more used to the dry Rotary Club events and business lunches held on-set , they found it all ‘ a pleasant change ’ . |
| 8 | The guys would chat me up , y'know , like — [ imitating an African accent ] ‘ I want you to be my wife ’ — and I found it all really flattering . |
| 9 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 10 | I found it all deeply depressing . |
| 11 | I was about ten at the time and I found it all a bit frightening . |
| 12 | I found it all very boring , especially when I got older , but kept my thoughts to myself . |
| 13 | Kate found it all difficult to understand , but she wanted to understand it . |
| 14 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
| 15 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 16 | People seeing ‘ Carry On ’ films found it all as natural as those who a generation earlier had greeted the squeal of bobby soxers for Frank Sinatra or , before that earlier the sight of Al Jolson in blackface . |
| 17 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 18 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 19 | Needless to say , Motherwell manager Tommy McLean found it all hard to bear . |
| 20 | You found it all quite natural ? |
| 21 | When she got the erm paper off in the erm er er in the hall , she found it all fell apart . |
| 22 | She 'd been ashamed to find that she found it such exhausting work , especially without the broad shoulders of Ross to lean on . |
| 23 | Get rid of all the clutter , but that 's what we found it most difficult |
| 24 | The black number you were wearing last night was still lying on the bathroom floor in a sodden heap when I found it this morning . ’ |
| 25 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 26 | So now he sat there , his napkin tucked around his chin , smiling gently : a mild-natured , weak , weakened old man , loyal to his bully of a wife , glad to be included , glad Shirley had n't found it all too much for her , grateful to sit there in the warmth of the nice oil-fired 1970s central heating . |
| 27 | All I can do is to share my experience with them and tell them how fulfilling I have found it all , and how I have grown as a person . |
| 28 | Scarlet had found it all very puzzling and upsetting : she could n't envisage herself telephoning her first husband 's second wife to complain about her child — even if they had n't gone to Australia . |
| 29 | Why on earth should we be surprised or aggrieved if politicians find it that way too ? |
| 30 | Vast amounts of money are made and I find it all very boring . |