Example sentences of "had found it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them . |
| 2 | At the end of the session , June Braithwaite said she had found it useful ; she had not needed to become hysterical , and he had not been able to leave and disappear into the kitchen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mme Guérigny shouted to Jean-Claude who , for one reason or another , had found it preferable to escape into the bathroom and shut the door . |
| 5 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 6 | And today he 'd made enquiries , of course , and had found it easy to be put in touch with someone who would sniff around in search of the wallet , someone like Archie . |
| 7 | Scarlet had found it all very puzzling and upsetting : she could n't envisage herself telephoning her first husband 's second wife to complain about her child — even if they had n't gone to Australia . |
| 8 | Lisa , who had first noticed this oddity in Rachel , had found it hilarious , had even teased Rachel about it directly . |
| 9 | Parsons and his followers had found it ironic that their place of depravity should be built on what had previously been Holy Ground . |
| 10 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At that point Jennifer had just had to give up her own job as she had found it impossible to continue nursing and Rachel could clearly remember the night she 'd found her sister severely depressed about her future . |
| 14 | All during the night , over and over again , she had found it absurd that she 'd ever considered herself a happy woman . |
| 15 | I 've never spoken to her myself but I know Angela had found it necessary to get her solicitor to write . ’ |
| 16 | From Lenin 's use of an ‘ expropriated ’ Rolls-Royce and ‘ socialized ’ imperial palaces and capitalist villas onwards , the People 's representatives had found it necessary to insulate themselves from the daily difficulties of ordinary life . |
| 17 | More than that , she was lying ; somewhere along the line , and perhaps more than once , she had found it necessary to lie . |
| 18 | But as time had gone on he had found it necessary to try to calm himself . |
| 19 | Only painters would find this featureless landscape interesting , but if Max Liebermann and Mauve — to name only two — had found it worthwhile , then he wanted to see it . |
| 20 | Countries had used subsidies to further the interests of their national companies , and Britain had found it difficult to compete in this arena . |
| 21 | At first my mother had found it difficult to remember their name , which was rather an unusual one : ‘ Praise-my-soul-the-King-of-Heaven-to-His-feet-thy-TRIBUTE … |
| 22 | She had found it difficult to read the labels on the bottles . |
| 23 | They had found it difficult to part but , as things were getting desperate , they turned to magic and said ‘ Abracadabra , one , two , three , say the magic words and now we 're free ’ . |
| 24 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 25 | Ann found it very difficult to tell , just as she had found it difficult to fathom out the workings of Martha 's mind in the days before she and her twin were married . |
| 26 | He had found it difficult to accustom himself to the practice , although with the right kind of company there were undoubted compensations . |
| 27 | He had found it difficult to resist the temptation to tell Patricia , at least , of his intention to become a Dominican , to go out with a bang instead of a whimper . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was noted that some staff were not aware of the whole background of questions and had found it difficult to reply to the questionnaire . |
| 30 | To say that the audience had found Dr McNab 's discourse dull would not be entirely accurate ; they had found it soothing , certainly , and perhaps monotonous . |