Example sentences of "i [vb past] it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I expected it all happened halfway along . |
| 2 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 3 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 4 | From an early stage in fieldwork I found it necessary to make a special index to notes which recorded what Zuwaya said about the past , for it was clear that these references and descriptions were recurrent themes . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , however , I found it necessary to resign from the board of Junior Tennis Centres . |
| 6 | It is compatible with a personal computer ; I found it simple to transfer Pro-File 's stored data and to display any dive profile . |
| 7 | I found it easy to use during both non-decompression and decompression dives . |
| 8 | The man in the bushes by the gate still worried her but I found it easy to isolate him from our friendship , although she felt now that he was trying to gas her ; the fumes from someone 's central heating outlet , discernible on the otherwise pure air , had inspired and confirmed her in this idea . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | I found it helpful to read the chapters on power ultrasound , commercially available equipment and scale — up considerations together . |
| 11 | I found it bewildering to use . |
| 12 | I found it impossible to answer brusquely as I had intended . |
| 13 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 14 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master . |
| 17 | I found it impossible to make relationships , I was one hell of a mess . |
| 18 | Sometimes I found it impossible to concentrate on my school work as the activities of the bird populations outside kept grabbing my attention . |
| 19 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I found it impossible to get from Mr and Mrs what their care would be , they were either unable or unwilling to discuss it with me , unquote . |
| 22 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 23 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 24 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 25 | The Alpha 's ability to delete a whole effect from a patch ( or add another ) is a godsend , and I found it useful to dispense with the equaliser , which worked for some sounds but definitely not for others . |
| 26 | I knew I found it hard to remember they were there , was very aware of you as I talked . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | At first , I found it hard to credit such an error to my father . |
| 29 | ( This was very strange for me and I found it hard to talk about . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was because I found it hard to define his place on the island . |