Example sentences of "[pers pn] found it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired .
2 Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views .
3 I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it .
4 With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament .
5 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 .
6 Unfortunately , however , I found it necessary to resign from the board of Junior Tennis Centres .
7 It is compatible with a personal computer ; I found it simple to transfer Pro-File 's stored data and to display any dive profile .
8 I found it easy to use during both non-decompression and decompression dives .
9 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 .
10 ( 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 . )
11 I found it helpful to read the chapters on power ultrasound , commercially available equipment and scale — up considerations together .
12 I found it bewildering to use .
13 I found it impossible to answer brusquely as I had intended .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master .
18 I found it impossible to make relationships , I was one hell of a mess .
19 Sometimes I found it impossible to concentrate on my school work as the activities of the bird populations outside kept grabbing my attention .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing .
26 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 .
27 I knew I found it hard to remember they were there , was very aware of you as I talked .
28 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 .
29 At first , I found it hard to credit such an error to my father .
30 ( This was very strange for me and I found it hard to talk about .
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