Example sentences of "and [verb] it [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She was genuinely concerned to help the customer and found it difficult to see any other point of view . ’ |
| 3 | Eadric Streona 's raid on St David 's in 1012 was not the first English incursion of Æthelred 's reign , and Cnut had been opposed by Welsh allies of Edmund Ironside in 1016 , and felt it necessary to settle several Scandinavian earls in the west midlands , one of whom , Eglaf , ravaged Dyfed in 1022 ; it is Welsh , not English , sources which record his flight from England after Cnut 's death . |
| 4 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 5 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 6 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |