Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture that emerged was highly confusing , because she could not follow all its references , despite Clelia 's efforts to explain herself ; she found it impossible to sort out the complications of Clelia 's family , which seemed to contain , as well as a poet father , an equally if not more famous mother , and a large number of strangely named children . |
| 2 | He nevertheless shared with other critics a concern about the untrained , unregulated , and unsupervised adolescent work-force , and found it impossible to separate completely the behaviour of these young workers from the larger problem of unemployment . |
| 3 | His prediction excited the people in their thousands and the Dutch authorities found it necessary to explain away the Jayabhaya legend . |
| 4 | She found it comforting to remember sometimes the worst aspects of Finn 's behaviour . |
| 5 | She clearly found it hard to sort out the implications of what was being suggested . |
| 6 | Once she would have chatted , laughed , teased him , asked where he came from , what he did ; now she found it hard to summon up the energy to care . |
| 7 | Dealers at Harvard Securities found it amusing to ring up a client at 8.20 am. and to interrupt his shaving , breakfasting , or love-making in order to press him into buying stock . |
| 8 | Even knowing what he did , Kirov found it difficult to see how the optical illusion had been managed . |
| 9 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 10 | I thought it essential to set out a full precedent for both the agreement and lease , so that readers could see the complete documentation and how I propose to amend it . |
| 11 | Vologsky kept his face grave , but the surging relief inside him made it impossible to inject quite the right note of abject apology into his voice . |
| 12 | Orient then took the lead with goals from Mark Cooper and Andy Jones , both from Simon Livett free kicks , before Paul Cavell made it 5–4 to set up a rousing finale . |
| 13 | We studied only a few newborn infants up to 2 months old , which made it difficult to assess fully the usefulness of the WHO criteria for detecting hypoxaemia in this age group . |
| 14 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 15 | The wide diversity of tasks carried out by the Departments made it inappropriate to carry out a detailed examination of each function . |