Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 2 | When darkness came he ventured out , selecting a large potato — which tasted awful although he ate it all . |
| 3 | It is necessary for the doctor and nurses to tactfully discuss this with Mr Reynolds although he finds it embarrassing ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 4 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |
| 5 | Rhoda Brocklebank had a part too , although he found it hard to give it a name . |
| 6 | I understand that he made it complete . ’ |
| 7 | But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse . |
| 8 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 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 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 11 | The nature of his art hardly allows the sculptor to reject the baser elements so explicitly , but I think we shall see that he makes it clear in his own way that he does so . |
| 12 | We also have the comments of his tutor , Ian Duthie , on the piece , which shows that he found it curious , too . |
| 13 | Bromley Challener said that he found it inconceivable , nay incomprehensible that so many local people could stand by and watch two courageous policemen set upon by rogues , and do nothing while these same officers received such grievous wounds that one had since died and the other would be incapacitated for months to come . |
| 14 | I looked at his face , which was something I did seldom , for I did n't like it , and saw that he did n't believe me ; that he found it inconceivable that I should n't love him ; that , ageing and unmarried though he was , he believed himself to be irresistible . |
| 15 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 16 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 17 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |
| 20 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 21 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His breath ragged , his eyes near wild , he stared at her , and it came to him then that he wanted it all : the house , the money , and Theda , too . |
| 24 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 25 | The hon. Member for Garscadden said last week that he finds it incomprehensible that many properties may stay in the same band in perpetuity . |
| 26 | Mr Hall says in a letter to her that he finds it difficult to understand how he can be associated with the previous Conservative MP Chris Butler 's lack of support for the unit . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , he hated the idea of dividing the family property , so he left it all to my elder brother . |
| 28 | , so he left it all open and I kept finding rolled up socks and of course there 's in the bottom of the airing cupboard where the tank is , and to pick them up and give them a shake and put them back again . |
| 29 | When asked whether he would support a constitutional change in Scotland if he did not have proportional representation , he said no ; so he makes it clear that he gives higher priority to the self-interest of the Liberal Democrats and a voting system that would help them than to the issue of principle on Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 30 | As the black perfume came tumbling over his breast , and he kissed it sweet in the moonlight , a sweet in the moonlight , and he tugged at his reigns in the moonlight , and galloped away to the west . |