Example sentences of "he found it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also have the comments of his tutor , Ian Duthie , on the piece , which shows that he found it curious , too . |
| 2 | Boy thought about this reaction to the film all day , but in the end he found it unsatisfactory , both as a form of interpretation and as a form of enjoyment . |
| 3 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them . |
| 6 | But he found it impossible . |
| 7 | Again he found it impossible to identify the passenger . |
| 8 | He found it impossible to believe that he had ever been able to write a book or give a lecture , or advise a government . |
| 9 | He found it impossible to keep in his head for any length of time that Bella was n't still his wife . |
| 10 | He sensed that his father was silently demanding some expression of regret , but whenever he glanced at his grim , unsmiling face he found it impossible to summon an apology to his lips . |
| 11 | He found it addictive , stimulating , endlessly absorbing , and he allowed nothing-certainly no personal involvements — to distract him . |
| 12 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 13 | Seated beneath a standard lamp , glass in hand , impressionist art on the wall and thick floor-length curtains closed against the night , he found it possible to believe he was almost anywhere but where he really was . |
| 14 | However , as he found it possible to reformulate it in terms of his own engineering type of mathematics ( which is not ) , he did not challenge it . |
| 15 | He found it awkward , but Angela was — naturally — reluctant . ’ |
| 16 | He found it ironic that anyone who supported the Anglo-Irish Agreement could oppose a modest measure to introduce divorce ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 17 | He found it ironic . |
| 18 | He was able to extend his law to cubic and biquadratic residues , but to state his results elegantly he found it helpful to introduce numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib respectively where a , b are integers , p is a complex cube root of unity and , of course , i is the usual square root of -1 . |
| 19 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 20 | He found it strange that he had just buried Tosspot who used to clean the platters and tankards in this very tavern . |
| 21 | Churchill was prime minister , and though he found it politic in the face of American and Labour pressure to allow negotiations about India 's constitutional future to go on , at the same time he ensured that all such negotiations came to nought . |
| 22 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 23 | As he is something of a carpenter ( he built his own sail boat for use on the Chesapeake ) , he found it simple enough to take off the right-angled corners and substitute curves . |
| 24 | He could not remember how long it was since-his wife had leaned on him , and he found it pleasant to be the one in charge of the situation . |
| 25 | All the same , he found it pleasant to watch Hari reviving like a thirsty plant which has just been watered . |
| 26 | That day he found it prudent to acquire the services of one Frederick James Ratcliff , a solicitor of Blagrave Street . |
| 27 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 28 | She guessed he found it intriguing to be able to talk about his consuming interest in the sport with a girl who not only knew what he was talking about , but could actually offer opinions that were interesting . |
| 29 | CHEAPER He found it cheaper than expected to get started because groundworks and services cost less than forecast . |
| 30 | Bromley Challener said that he found it inconceivable , nay incomprehensible that so many local people could stand by and watch two courageous policemen set upon by rogues , and do nothing while these same officers received such grievous wounds that one had since died and the other would be incapacitated for months to come . |