Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the detailed nature of these checks depends on the material submitted , but we found it invaluable to look at the output from these checks before looking at the coursework itself . |
| 2 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 3 | Peter found it therapeutic to go through the boxes . |
| 4 | Afraid to be alone , Leonora nevertheless found it impossible to sleep with the large figure of Penry Vaughan beside her bed . |
| 5 | He liked Eden , and he found it easy to disapprove of the way in which Chamberlain had handled relations with him . |
| 6 | The street was wider there and Owen 's men found it easy to slip round the Sheikh separating him from his followers and surrounding him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , however , I found it necessary to resign from the board of Junior Tennis Centres . |
| 9 | That is no doubt perfectly all right , but it makes you wonder why King Charles ever found it necessary to burst into the Commons with his soldiers , in search of the five rebel members . |
| 10 | Ken found it hard to adapt to the new age . |
| 11 | They found it hard to cope with the implications of the objective open-endedness of the Council 's vast range of teaching . |
| 12 | I also found it hard to deal with the petty bourgeois outlook of all but a few of the girls at that private school . |
| 13 | Similarly , working-class musical practice found it hard to deal with the elements of bourgeois solo song except by acquiescing in the norms of the dominant musical culture , or by treating them parodistically or through other methods of distortion . |
| 14 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 15 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 16 | Kirov found it difficult to enthuse over the photograph , mainly because of the subject matter . |
| 17 | ‘ Simon 's childhood had left him with a feeling of inadequacy and a strong envious streak , which meant he found it difficult to live with the idea of an associate being better than him . |
| 18 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 19 | Many of the townsfolk could not understand them and Ranulf , particularly , found it difficult to cope with the broad flow of Scottish his questions provoked . |
| 20 | It was not an ideal situation , Hari found it difficult to cope with the hard exacting work of a shoemaker and the demands of her short tempered mother . |
| 21 | The leaders of the new organisations also found it difficult to cope with the speed of growth of their organisations . |
| 22 | Many of the older people found it difficult to throw off the ‘ criminal , associations which had carried over from the fifties and sixties . |
| 23 | Although it seemed very efficient , one improvement I might suggest would be to mount the covers on spring rollers , because the drivers found it difficult to get to the bikes with the covers pressing on them while they worked . |
| 24 | After Nuremberg Oaksey found it difficult to adjust to the work of a law lord . |
| 25 | It was odd ; I found it difficult to focus on the time that had passed since he 'd been kidnapped ; sometimes it seemed like moments , at others like years . |
| 26 | Still , having slipped into a B-film cop part , he found it difficult to slough off the role . |
| 27 | A little unsteadily I wandered away to the library , but I found it difficult to concentrate on the uses of the Russian Imperfective . |
| 28 | Again , this is a complex notion in itself , so it is hardly surprising that some respondents found it difficult to reply to the questions : Has the conceptual map of your subject changed much in the last decade ? |
| 29 | English civilian and army personnel found it natural to consort with the Ulster majority when off duty . |
| 30 | Indeed , he often felt it expedient to hide from the British the degree to which he was willing to co- operate and listen to their views . |