Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening proved to be extremely busy , and Juliet found it impossible to slip up to Hunter again . |
| 2 | We found it safer to hold on with two hands then . |
| 3 | So her former connection with Rustenburg , and the presence there of his brother , may have been among the considerations that prompted Herbert Cranko to choose that town when he found it necessary to settle down after a roving life . |
| 4 | And it was surprising how frequently they found it necessary to motor down to Edmonton or Calgary . |
| 5 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 6 | She was elected Labour MP for Sunderland in 1929 , but , like many other women parliamentarians of the period , found it hard to break in to the House of Commons debates . |
| 7 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 8 | Owen found it hard to keep up with him . |
| 9 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |
| 10 | What his co-religionists sometimes found it difficult to put up with , however , was his abrasive personality and haranguing manner , a combination which ensured fiery exchanges and injured feelings in the frequent communal meetings . |
| 11 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 12 | He found it difficult to get on with people but he was n't a bad man . ’ |
| 13 | American elite theorists especially proclaimed their commitment to a positivist method , but found it difficult to follow through with appropriate empirical accounts of the exercise of power ( Lasswell , 1936 ; Lasswell and Kaplan , 1950 ; Hunter , 1953 ; Mills , 1956 ; Domhoff , 1976 ) . |
| 14 | The ride itself was very open and exposed and after being so long in the close embrace of the trees Marian found it difficult to step out into the clear daylight . |
| 15 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 16 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 17 | I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength . |
| 18 | Older brother Helgard won three caps in the early 80s , and Muller found it tough growing up with that comparison . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , is that why you thought it safe to come back to the parlour after your arduous work in the surgery ? ’ said McAllister dangerously , casting a sarcastic eye at the half-read novel in his hand . |
| 20 | With my track record , I thought it wise to keep out of His way . |
| 21 | They embarked but dense fog made it impossible to put in to Ardbeg so they were all carried to the Small Isles , Jura , then to Port Askaig and West Loch Tarbet , returning to Ardbeg next evening after 24 hours on board . |
| 22 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |
| 23 | But it 's lovely inside cos he had it all done out for her but she just wo n't move ! |
| 24 | Had it all come down to this ? |