Example sentences of "i [vb past] it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 2 | It is Liszt who nevertheless looms largest in the anthology , and in whose music I found it most easy to understand Crimp 's belief in Levitzki as ‘ one of this century 's master pianists ’ . |
| 3 | I found it almost impossible to mix with my fellow students . |
| 4 | On the contrary , I found it fairly positive to announce that complaints were down to one ( now doubled ) ; that in recession 1,266 entries were judged ; that entries came from all over the world ; that the system had changed in direct response to comments made by members . |
| 5 | This study might appear one sided with more detail about ‘ Anna Karenina ’ but I think it is inevitable and although I found it quite hard to compare such different styles , I enjoyed reading and studying both . |
| 6 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 7 | I found it supremely restful to talk to her , and when we finally parted I told her I hoped we might see each other again some time . |
| 8 | I found it very easy to go into the science sixth and nobody suggested that it was n't a ladylike thing to do . |
| 9 | I found it very difficult to say this word , and so I decided to shorten it and call them Houys . |
| 10 | ‘ I found it very difficult to judge that first script . |
| 11 | One woman described how she experienced an aggressive pattern : ‘ I found it very difficult to cope with women over me , especially if I thought that they were n't being fair — although I had no problems when dealing with men . |
| 12 | I found it very difficult to get past the first fleet but when I did the game became more enjoyable especially as the 256 colour graphics match most games out today . |
| 13 | ‘ Everybody wanted a piece of my action and I found it very difficult to adjust . |
| 14 | One of the things I I I found it very difficult to start with I must admit is that to prejudge that people would or would not go in . |
| 15 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 16 | I found it personally difficult to justify the cost to my society of attending these occasions in times of recession , and I would have dearly loved to have had the support of my spouse on the occasions when I did go . |
| 17 | But I found it really helpful to have known you both because you were in both groups and involved in the Union and the EOP Working Party . |
| 18 | On the whole I found it less tiring to keep the two of them apart . |
| 19 | It 's zany , it 's irreverent and it 's brimful of right-on attitudes , but I found it virtually impossible to raise a smile , never mind a laugh . |
| 20 | ‘ However , on this occasion I thought it not unreasonable to take a risk . |
| 21 | I thought it only civil to break the ice with this boy of hitherto laggardly intelligence who had somehow scrambled his way to a temporary plateau of scholastic proximity . |
| 22 | I thought it only fair to let you know . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 24 | Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds . |
| 25 | This lady on my right , Katherine Powell , does all the hard work and committee reports , and I thought it only fair to bring her here today , because she 's the person that does the set fifty-threes , |
| 26 | As a professional carver I thought it only natural to get my hands on one of those new Arbortech Woodcarvers to add to my compendium of tools last year . |
| 27 | I said I thought it too valuable to wear constantly and had put it in my dressing-table drawer . |