Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also loved their partner to take the initiative as they found it boring if sex was always a case of the man trying it on . |
| 2 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
| 3 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
| 4 | Morrissey found it terrible that people were so rigidly divided , that men could only like men 's things and women women 's things . |
| 5 | I found it helpful that Mrs McLaren behaved as naturally ( or perhaps as unnaturally ) as her companion had done . |
| 6 | He meant to look forbidding , but found it difficult when eyes that should be glaring were shut . |
| 7 | An OECD study in 1989 found it unlikely that MOX could compete with uranium under realistic circumstances . |
| 8 | He found it incredible that Mr Adams should issue a statement within hours of the hospital bombing expressing his concern for patients in the granting of trust status to the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 9 | Lord Byron and Wagner are among those who found it irresistible and Hans Christian Anderson named its bay the ‘ Bay of Fairy Tales ’ . |
| 10 | During the war , when we were doing research on strong plastics , Professor Charles Gurney used to recite this little ditty to me nearly every day and I found it depressing because wood was in fact a better material for making aeroplanes than the plastics which we could then produce . |
| 11 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 12 | And she found it interesting that Sandra would project her own pathetic pursuit of Matthew on to someone else . |
| 13 | At 2–1 up , Team Cotswold played it steady and Chelmsford were plagued with bad luck on net cords and injuries . |
| 14 | Carefully removing the long pane of glass they had loosened from the skylight frame , the two men lifted it clear and Larsen propped it against his knees . |
| 15 | They called the job crow-keeping , a phrase that Shakespeare used to describe it ; some called it bird-keeping or bird-tending — keeping the birds off the newly sown land — while others referred to it simply as rook-scaring . |
| 16 | However , they felt it important that consumers should retain the freedom of choice so that those who found the extra cost of electrical ‘ refined heat ’ worthwhile because of its cleanliness and convenience were free to pay for it . |
| 17 | Ledeen always thought it self-evident that America should re-open contacts with Iran ; it could profit from the political fissures there , and could perhaps exploit the chaos that would undoubtedly follow the end of the Ayatollah 's rule . |
| 18 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 19 | Nobody thought it odd that Mother Francis often went up the path past the blackberries to read her Office up by the cottage . |
| 20 | At first I thought it ironic that Jean-Claude had chosen a Jewish friend to use . |
| 21 | With hindsight , he thought it probable that Arabella had also been there alone , to meet Ivor . |
| 22 | On reaching the Spanish borders where officials gave them a hard time , Norman thought it advisable if Minton drove off . |
| 23 | A National Consumer Council opinion poll this year found 98 per cent thought it important that consumers should have a legal right to demand a replacement or refund if a product can not be repaired reasonably quickly . |
| 24 | It was a measure of the opacity of military affairs that , although no Zuwayi had any evidence of meetings , or of any disproportional conscription , most people thought it plausible that men might be pressed into the army because they were Zuwaya . |
| 25 | Charity with enough resilience to laugh , thought it unlikely that Charles would make a particularly docile prisoner and Clarissa said she 'd write and tell him to behave himself . |
| 26 | I thought it unlikely that Xanthe would ever sleep in that car again , so strong was her present reaction . |
| 27 | A Jim Magilton penalty made it 3-1 although Lee Clark pulled Newcastle to 3-2 . |
| 28 | Ged Kennedy made it 2–0 before Willie Wilson headed home to put the issue beyond doubt . |
| 29 | He argued that in some markets the lumpy nature of demand made it essential that contracts be shared out , to ensure that the competitors were not exposed to the risk of alternating ‘ feast and famine ’ in their order books . |
| 30 | Though Plato never made it explicit that Thoth , the inventor of science , was identical with Hermes , the identification is stated by Aristoxenus of Tarentum and Hecataeus of Abdera ( Stobaeus 1 , Prooem. 6 , p. 20 Wachsmuth = Aristoxenus fr. 23 Wehrli ; Diodorus 1.16 ) . |