Example sentences of "and find it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard it perfectly and found it most interesting . " |
| 2 | I have just read my first Smollett — ‘ The expedition of Humphrey Clinker ’ , and found it most entertaining , as well as throwing quite a different light on the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | One looked at the team and found it desperately hard to agree . |
| 4 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |
| 5 | Taking into account the Society 's view on the operation of the mobility clause and its own survey , the EOC found that the mobility requirement had a disproportionate impact on women applicants and found it indirectly discriminatory contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act . |
| 6 | But they went and found it just the same . |
| 7 | He stayed in digs in a colliery village at the time and found it equally possible to integrate easily into the local community . |
| 8 | as if she knew what Carrie was thinking and found it mildly amusing . |
| 9 | Not thinking much of Fife 's soldierly abilities , and judging him in need of a lesson for his crowning of the usurper , he and Keith had attacked Perth town , and found it surprisingly easy to take . |
| 10 | I 'm sure you 've also experienced sessions you thought something somebody 's delivered in one session and found it really interesting you 've got a lot from it , and yet somebody else comes into the same subject matter and you think that you know was n't very interesting did n't , you know , did n't , I did n't really wanting to learn . |
| 11 | He put his finger towards one of the clenched fists and found it tightly grasped . |
| 12 | This New Year , I resolved to start the diet again and found it less difficult second time round . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 14 | He liked him very much , and felt the enchantment , and found it almost a spell . |
| 15 | But I have been to the cirque in early June and in October , and found it almost deserted , so it is not too hard to pick your moment . |
| 16 | The recent fixed-rate mortgage offers , such as those from the Halifax ( fixed rate at 10.80% for five years ) and National Westminster Bank ( 10.95% for two years ) may look attractive if one was paying 15.75% in 1989 and found it all but impossible to make ends meet . |
| 17 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 18 | ‘ Tom lay down on the grass and looked into the clear , clear limestone water , with every pebble at the bottom bright and clean , while the little silver trout dashed about in fright at the sight of his black face ; and he dipped his hand in and found it so cool , cool , cool ; and he said , ‘ I will be a fish ; I will swim in the water ; I must be clean , I must be clean ’ . ’ |
| 19 | The Gothic imagination dwelt on the mystery , and found it more productive of nightmares than of dreams of paradise . |
| 20 | She wondered if he had ever brought Suzanne Regan here and found it more than usually difficult to wipe the thought from her mind . |
| 21 | I 've used the Alpamayo for backpacking and Nordic ski touring and found it very stable . |
| 22 | Ramsey had read the life of Archbishop Randall Davidson by George Bell and found it very depressing — a noble and unspoilt man inside a sickening system — ‘ the wire-pulling , the hedging , and energy spent on things that do n't matter , and all the sitting on the fence ’ . |
| 23 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 24 | She was pregnant with Maisie when she filmed the scene and found it very disturbing to have to act out the motions of a woman losing her baby . |
| 25 | If you can afford several pairs , then I think that 7 × 50 , 8.5 × 50 and 12 × 40 is a reasonable selection , though recently I borrowed a 10 × 60 pair and found it very useful . |
| 26 | In the last few years , when Select Committee activity has appeared to be itself under scrutiny , we have often tried to answer this question and found it very difficult . |
| 27 | Thankful that in the dim bar her confusion would not be evident , she focused all her attention on her meal , and found it very , very hard to swallow . |
| 28 | He was a very slow writer and found it very difficult to produce what Ben wanted , so the actual work of the libretto was often well behind the work of the music . |
| 29 | ( Rather than Aunt Polly ) I enjoyed this book , and found it very clever , as it was all from Finn 's point of view . |
| 30 | we said that last year to our Neville and found it very boring |