Example sentences of "[vb past] it easy " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 2 | So Jane found it easy to ask Flora — whom she found honest and direct — how she and Alastair had got together . |
| 3 | The man in the bushes by the gate still worried her but I found it easy to isolate him from our friendship , although she felt now that he was trying to gas her ; the fumes from someone 's central heating outlet , discernible on the otherwise pure air , had inspired and confirmed her in this idea . |
| 4 | I found it easy to use during both non-decompression and decompression dives . |
| 5 | Even the least sophisticated found it easy to blame the chronic unemployment which afflicted Britain on the war . |
| 6 | Because they saw the world as composed of groups rather than of individuals , they found it easy to articulate rules of general application , to which exceptions required specific dispensation . |
| 7 | He liked Eden , and he found it easy to disapprove of the way in which Chamberlain had handled relations with him . |
| 8 | She found it easy : to begin with , she found everything easy , as her memory for facts was remarkable , and it was only as she grew older that she began to notice in herself slight doubts about her ability to pursue higher physics and mathematics . |
| 9 | Nearly all of the pupils found it easy to locate an object and read its height ( Example 64 ) . |
| 10 | Johnson found it easy to represent his opponent as the enemy of the underprivileged at home and a warmonger abroad ; and he swept to victory by one of the largest margins in American history — 43 million votes to 27 million , and 44 states to six . |
| 11 | But being married to him had taught her that he was not a man who found it easy to forgive and forget — indeed , she was tempted to think that he enjoyed harbouring grudges and taking revenge . |
| 12 | A day of celebration and a day of tragedy , one superimposed upon the other , so that Amabel , who did not even wish to be rational , found it easy to believe that Ben Braithwaite had broken not only Linnet 's heart , but Gemma 's . |
| 13 | Three-quarters said its design appealed to them and 92 per cent found it easy to read . |
| 14 | ‘ You found it easy ? ’ he asked Callaghan . |
| 15 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 16 | The street was wider there and Owen 's men found it easy to slip round the Sheikh separating him from his followers and surrounding him . |
| 17 | Only revolutionary thinkers like Marx found it easy to conceive of situations in which , as it were , 2 + 2 no longer equalled 4 but might equal something else instead or also . |
| 18 | United found it easy enough to open Wolves up , but they could n't quite finish them off . |
| 19 | He found it easy to speak to , and make friends , with complete strangers . |
| 20 | Well I found it easy . |
| 21 | Took it easy , mm . |
| 22 | It is easy to say now that the potential for cellular telephones made it easy to focus on that business . |
| 23 | Watching her now , in this setting , made it easy for him to believe this . |
| 24 | I did hear some buyers indicate that the EUROAIM scheme made it easy to avoid , en masse , many troublesome independents , as they were all grouped conveniently together , but I trust this was a minority position ! |
| 25 | While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises . |
| 26 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 27 | The strong simplicity of his ideas about life and the universe made it easy to link him with other men of understanding , so that for me the book seemed to be ringing with echoes of Hamlet and Richard Jefferies and the New Testament . |
| 28 | These were placed in the upper course , tributary valleys where the steep gradients of the rivers made it easy to divert the water for only short distances to allow a sufficient fall to drive the water wheels . |
| 29 | ( iv ) The canals made it easy to bring these materials together . |
| 30 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |