Example sentences of "and found it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He brought home lots of work all the time and found it frustrating that he could n't get on top of it , ’ said Mrs Miller , of Earith , Cambs . |
| 2 | This is important to stress , because the tradition of over.selling still persists in some quarters and it is possible to find extravagantly foolish predictions and claims within the educational technology literature , which will be a considerable embarrassment to the many sensible and imaginative teachers who have applied the method and found it helpful to them . |
| 3 | All this could be accounted for by the fact that Picasso was working on a very large scale and found it necessary to simplify his technique and adopt a bolder approach . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 've tasted the air and found it frigid . |
| 5 | He nevertheless shared with other critics a concern about the untrained , unregulated , and unsupervised adolescent work-force , and found it impossible to separate completely the behaviour of these young workers from the larger problem of unemployment . |
| 6 | Driving along the lane , she tried to picture Hywel parking his tractor and going into his house to be greeted by Elizabeth , and found it impossible . |
| 7 | Having tried to arrange repatriation and found it hopeless , he was resigned to whatever future faced him in Germany . |
| 8 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 9 | Melinda went to investigate and found it ruinous . |
| 10 | At her inquest this afternoon he said he 'd visited the streets where she worked and found it dangerous even in daylight . |
| 11 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 12 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 13 | But he had also read the life of Bishop Charles Gore and found it inspiring , so it was not always sickening to work as a bishop . |
| 14 | All volunteers ( n:18 ) ate the breakfast within 15 minutes and found it palatable . |
| 15 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 16 | I went round Chesmore Zoo the other day and found it fascinating . ’ |
| 17 | They measured Tariff Reform on strictly financial grounds and found it wanting . |
| 18 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 19 | By 1887 , however , he had tried the existing Sunderland Union and found it wanting . |
| 20 | Many had pinned their hopes on the Renewal Movement and found it wanting . |
| 21 | Around the latter group were many who had tried the traditional Marxist left and found it wanting . |
| 22 | Believers have gluttoned on the god of excess and found it wanting . |
| 23 | Another generation found the promise tested , and found it wanting . |
| 24 | Royal Commissions had been appointed , and had recently reported , on the state of rivers ; they had investigated the ‘ comfortable doctrine ’ that in twelve miles or so a river however foul would purify itself , and found it untrue . |
| 25 | But the marketing agencies of all three countries have recently unveiled multi-million pound promotional campaigns for the British market within recent weeks , which would appear to indicate they have researched the market and consumer response within it and found it worthwhile . |
| 26 | The slower tester ran just below 70 per cent of MHR and found it uncomfortable to push any harder for 10 minutes , let alone 20 . |
| 27 | I was not quite five feet eight inches high , weighed only nine and a half stone , and found it uncomfortable to stand without arch-supports even for the duration of a hymn in church . |
| 28 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 29 | In spite of this he was sexually very experienced and attractive to women and found it difficult to turn down their advances . |
| 30 | Robert had never been a healthy man and found it difficult to earn a living . |