Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [adj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He found it hard to express sympathy and , in any case , he was more interested in legal matters . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |