Example sentences of "[pron] was impossible not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Young did her best to soothe her , but it was impossible not to respect her fears . |
| 2 | brought him there for the view , but it was impossible not to watch just the aircraft lights , perhaps macabrely hoping one would lose its grip . |
| 3 | It was impossible not to like Claudia . |
| 4 | It was impossible not to respond to his smile . |
| 5 | It was impossible not to compare him with her stepfather , so cold , reserved and cautious , and whose passions seemed solely aroused by his business and moneymaking skill . |
| 6 | It was impossible not to remember , after what Timothy Gedge had said . |
| 7 | But it was impossible not to talk about it . |
| 8 | It was impossible not to notice Anna Essinger . |
| 9 | Someone who was tall and black-haired , with milkmaid cheeks and deep , dark eyes ; eyes so deep and dark it was impossible not to notice them . |
| 10 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 11 | Their long , slurred vowels rendered their German almost incomprehensible to me , though it was impossible not to listen in as they argued more loudly and grinned more broadly at each other 's jokes as the beer did its work . |
| 12 | It was impossible not to feel flattered . |
| 13 | It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her . |
| 14 | It was impossible not to feel mollified by the explanation , although Folly did her best not to show it . |
| 15 | ( In this hallucinatory company , it was impossible not to feel ill at ease . |
| 16 | Since on the morning of Polling Day The Times had forecast a majority of twenty-two I felt more than satisfied- but it was impossible not to feel , with all the excitement and gratification , a sense of humility and even awe . |
| 17 | It was impossible not to smile . |
| 18 | I lived in a room off the kitchen , so thin-walled that it was impossible not to hear what was happening in the dining room unless Wu had a gadget going . |
| 19 | This was , of course , an extreme statement of the principles of French colonial policy and in practice it was impossible not to export French culture , including political culture , at almost every point at which French administration touched on the life of Vietnam . |
| 20 | Clara did not enjoy her sausage , for it was burned black on the outside and raw in the middle , and her mother had told her that it was impossible not to get worms from raw sausage meat , but the taste of the damp mince with its bitter crust remained a strong reminder of illicit pleasure . |
| 21 | She went about her normal business without speaking , unless it was impossible not to reply to some query . |
| 22 | It was impossible not to stare at him all the time . |