Example sentences of "found it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So we put a , as a rider on , that it had already passed the rider it says there , but we found it unacceptable at P A G. |
| 4 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 5 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 6 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 7 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 8 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 9 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 10 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 11 | She not only got pregnant but also found it impossible to further her career in the Tory party . |
| 12 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 13 | Try as she might , Kate found it impossible to be completely unaware of the sexual magnetism of the man . |
| 14 | The buyer found it unsuitable for making into dresses . |
| 15 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Invaluable experience , of course , but I found it frustrating in that , so often , I was n't able to see cases right through . ’ |
| 20 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |
| 21 | She found it cool to her back . |
| 22 | This was supposed to be very good for skin problems , but one man was known to have visited it regularly to collect the water for his wife who found it beneficial for her arthritis . |
| 23 | This is fine in principle , but I found it awkward in practice . |
| 24 | Be brave , she reminded herself , and kept her features composed when , ‘ Thank you , Fabia , ’ Ven began , and , seeming encouraged that she had stayed , ‘ To explain more fully why I found it necessary to be so brutal when you were such a delight … ’ |
| 25 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 26 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I actually found it I know me and you have discussed this earlier on and I , I , I did n't find it I found it confusing to be honest with you . |
| 29 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 30 | She also had strong opinions and found it hard to " brook any delay or frustration . |