Example sentences of "[vb past] it impossible [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she went to bed she found it impossible to sleep , and started thinking about her ex-boyfriend and about the paperwork that awaited her the next day . |
| 2 | The kitten was soon curled up , snoring contentedly , but Robbie found it impossible to sleep . |
| 3 | Afraid to be alone , Leonora nevertheless found it impossible to sleep with the large figure of Penry Vaughan beside her bed . |
| 4 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 5 | Marriage was forbidden in their contracts too , but so many of the so-called babes broke the rule during the season that Amy found it impossible to replace them ; not having a large pool of dancers back in Britain she decided to bring the unmarried ones back after the first year 's contract was completed . |
| 6 | Sadly , Ransome found it impossible to carry through . |
| 7 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 8 | The picture that emerged was highly confusing , because she could not follow all its references , despite Clelia 's efforts to explain herself ; she found it impossible to sort out the complications of Clelia 's family , which seemed to contain , as well as a poet father , an equally if not more famous mother , and a large number of strangely named children . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She found it impossible to settle after his visit , and spent the time until she went to bed silently reviling him . |
| 11 | Articulate women , anxious to lead purposeful lives , found it impossible to dismiss the idea , supported as it was by scientific theories of sexual difference , that their proper place was in the home . |
| 12 | But the gesture was accomplished so smoothly and was finished so quickly Dexter found it impossible to judge . |
| 13 | We knew that VAT was going to be an issue , but because everything was so vague we found it impossible to draw up detailed plans in advance , which meant that at the last minute we had to commit unbudgeted and unplanned resources to enable us to be ready for January . ’ |
| 14 | Moreover , both parties found it impossible to sustain widespread interest in political organization . |
| 15 | The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded . |
| 16 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 17 | Working class women 's groups and the Workers ' Birth Control Group , formed in 1924 , which played a major part in the struggle for access to birth control information , also found it impossible to ignore the maternalist framework in their campaign . |
| 18 | And for the hundredth time she found it impossible to envisage saying no . |
| 19 | She found it impossible to collect her thoughts when he looked at her like that . |
| 20 | I found it impossible to answer brusquely as I had intended . |
| 21 | The union found it impossible to enforce the strike — even flying pickets could not police hundreds of separate farms . |
| 22 | Having opened the door to invite public inspection , the Palace found it impossible to close again . |
| 23 | When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them . |
| 24 | Russell smiled again but Dexter found it impossible to decide whether it was a smile of contemplation , charm or mendacity — or all three . |
| 25 | She found it impossible to sit still . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If for instance , Hanslick found it impossible to take his libretti seriously as poetry , so much the worse for Hanslick . |
| 28 | During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action . |
| 29 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 30 | 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 . |