Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] find it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Stoke Poges churchyard , whose large yew tree was immortalised in Thomas Gray 's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , the ‘ yew tree 's shade ’ was poorer than the poet had found it , as its needles were yellowing , branches drooping and canopy transparent . |
| 2 | A diver had found it out at sea trapped beneath the underground storage container from a petrol station , the container having been ripped right out of the ground . |
| 3 | The Commission has often brought forward proposals using a dubious legal base , and the Council has found it difficult to halt that practice in the European Court . |
| 4 | Men confused by some of the changes in women 's own expectations of marriage have found it hard to adjust to a wife who now expects her husband to be a thoughtful and technically competent lover , a housefather and a co-counsellor . |
| 5 | At a time when most companies are consolidating their positions , Spaceway South have found it profitable helping other companies make the most of their available space . |
| 6 | The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents . |
| 7 | It was often tedious ; and for every senator disposed to find it fun , there was another whose face would be set in grim outrage . |
| 8 | And before I went to school on the Monday , drove back down the marsh and went in this forest trying to find it . |
| 9 | The same as the way that this gentleman has found it 's somebody else making a decision to what people can see and I do n't consider some a show like Pro 's and Con 's which had female nudity and two hundred and fifty people walk out in one night to mean something which I think is enhancing to the playhouse . . |
| 10 | I am grateful that , on this occasion at least , the hon. Gentleman has found it possible to welcome at least some of the proposals in the White Paper . |
| 11 | When daylight dawned , Kermit drove off to the hangar expecting to find it standing . |
| 12 | Without private means , as a less-promising drop-out from Edinburgh medicine , he would even after his voyage have found it very difficult to find employment giving leisure for research . |
| 13 | Oh anyway , the charter has found it 's way into the Daily Mail , Ann brought a small cutting and erm . |
| 14 | Also the notion that only households with very specific demographic characteristics and specific patterns of access to land find it in their interests to have fewer children gained some publicity ( Mamdani 1976 ) . |
| 15 | It is hard to think that the novelist intended the reader to find this even more gnomic and exasperating than the colleague seems to find it . |
| 16 | She 'd stowed it away there , his father had found it . |
| 17 | She sensed that , even in contesting her decision to make use of the Lodge , her father had found it impossible to speak his full revulsion for the place . |
| 18 | Clearly , Greeley and Rossi 's findings could be used both ways , and in fact both camps in the Irish debate have found it supportive of their case . |
| 19 | Traditional catalogue studies considered success and failure of a catalogue consultation in terms of whether or not an item was in the catalogue and , if it was , whether or not the user managed to find it . |
| 20 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 21 | He has taken a freebie holiday at enormous expense and the jury has found it is clearly not on . |
| 22 | He claimed that de Klerk agreed with him that there was " some hidden hand " and that the government intended to find it . |
| 23 | The Blue Arrows and Michael pages of the recruitment world have found it much easier because they have had a variety of products and services , and encompass a number of sectors . |
| 24 | The Combined Studies ( Humanities ) Board had found it difficult to ensure comparability of standards across different boards and panels , given the complex arrangement of joint validation with the Committee for Education . |
| 25 | As they approached , the prince had found it almost impossible to tell the one from the other . |
| 26 | Edward the First had sacked the town in 1296 , as an example to the rest of the country of what to expect if his take-over was opposed ; but thereafter that megalomaniac prince had found it useful as a staging-point for his occupation of the northern kingdom . |
| 27 | For several weeks , Tobias Beventini had found it impossible to speak of the apprentice he had chosen to follow , to dissect , to guide , in a medical way , towards the real , adult world . |
| 28 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |
| 29 | He 's got a long way to go to find it . |
| 30 | But this does not mean , apparently , the active negotiation of meaning , the realization of speech acts , discourse enactment , social interaction , or indeed any aspect of language use which those who have been concerned with communicative approaches to language teaching have found it necessary to invoke . |