Example sentences of "find it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been lucky to see it in Vogue and to find it available in Harrods . |
| 2 | Harrington at once leapt into a slit trench in great haste , only to find it full of barbed wire which inflicted severe lacerations on him . |
| 3 | When the book was nearing publication , a scientist who was sent an advance copy to review for Nature magazine was appalled to find it full of errors , with misplaced and erroneously labeled photographs and diagrams . |
| 4 | WITH their very predictable choice of players , particularly the number of England players , the Lions are going to find it tough in New Zealand . |
| 5 | Reality strikes home when the learner arrives on the ward to find it overcrowded with beds , chairs , trolleys and even patients . |
| 6 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 7 | She guessed he found it intriguing to be able to talk about his consuming interest in the sport with a girl who not only knew what he was talking about , but could actually offer opinions that were interesting . |
| 8 | So we put a , as a rider on , that it had already passed the rider it says there , but we found it unacceptable at P A G. |
| 9 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 10 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 11 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 12 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 13 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 14 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 15 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 16 | She not only got pregnant but also found it impossible to further her career in the Tory party . |
| 17 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 18 | Try as she might , Kate found it impossible to be completely unaware of the sexual magnetism of the man . |
| 19 | The buyer found it unsuitable for making into dresses . |
| 20 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 21 | He could not remember how long it was since-his wife had leaned on him , and he found it pleasant to be the one in charge of the situation . |
| 22 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
| 23 | Churchill was prime minister , and though he found it politic in the face of American and Labour pressure to allow negotiations about India 's constitutional future to go on , at the same time he ensured that all such negotiations came to nought . |
| 24 | Invaluable experience , of course , but I found it frustrating in that , so often , I was n't able to see cases right through . ’ |
| 25 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |
| 26 | She found it cool to her back . |
| 27 | This was supposed to be very good for skin problems , but one man was known to have visited it regularly to collect the water for his wife who found it beneficial for her arthritis . |
| 28 | This is fine in principle , but I found it awkward in practice . |
| 29 | Be brave , she reminded herself , and kept her features composed when , ‘ Thank you , Fabia , ’ Ven began , and , seeming encouraged that she had stayed , ‘ To explain more fully why I found it necessary to be so brutal when you were such a delight … ’ |
| 30 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |