Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All the same , he found it pleasant to watch Hari reviving like a thirsty plant which has just been watered . |
| 3 | When Richard Earl of Cornwall was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1257 he found it useful to have cameos and intaglios dating from Classical antiquity inserted in his crown as well as precious stones ( fig.36 ) . |
| 4 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |
| 5 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 6 | I do n't think he found Ward 's accent at all easy , and anyway , like many foreigners , he found it easier to speak English than to understand it . |
| 7 | He found it hard to express sympathy and , in any case , he was more interested in legal matters . |
| 8 | Mr Eduardo Angeloz , the Radical candidate to succeed Mr Alfonsin in the election on May 14th , wanted to dissociate himself from this disaster ; he found it cOnvenient to blame Mr Sourrouille . |
| 9 | In spite of his plans , as late as January 1938 Hitler told Colonel Beck that he considered the Danzig arrangements binding , that he thought it possible to accommodate Poland and that he had no territorial claims to make . |
| 10 | One indication that Richard was still maintaining a more aggressive attitude than his father lies in the fact that when the constable of Gisors killed a French knight in a skirmish which occurred after the truce had been made he thought it wiser to take refuge with Richard . |
| 11 | It is a measure of the enthusiasm which he observed that , when Sadler duly provided a reading-list — tactfully headed with the ‘ King 's Book ’ , an episcopal compilation in which Henry VIII had had a hand — he felt it necessary to advise caution ; religious works circulating too freely had their own dangers , as Henry had recognized , when he passed an act in that year forbidding the reading of them by unfit groups , women , artificers and labourers . |
| 12 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |