Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [adj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met them both at that Paris conference on sexuality and textuality I went to . |
| 2 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 3 | She says , ‘ I found it difficult at first having to relinquish the coaching responsibilities , but it was great working with Rob . |
| 4 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 5 | Mrs Gawthrop 's first Rottweiler was Adda of Mallion , who held her own at All Breed Shows in the UK ; she was placed , which was difficult for a minority breed at the time , in variety classes . |
| 6 | Through the haze of steam she contemplated nothing much at all , and gradually felt some of her tension and wariness disperse . |
| 7 | However , we did our best at that stage , and perhaps Christian poets in Burmese literature will arise and help our people to produce hymns more satisfying to the Burmese spirit and understandable to our Buddhist friends . |
| 8 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 9 | Great Britain went 2–1 up in the four-match Test series against the United States when they defeated them 8–3 at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Saturday . |
| 10 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 11 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 12 | He saw nothing unusual at that time . ’ |
| 13 | As a composer he proved himself adept at large dramatic forms laced with fantasy and irony , epitomised by his opera ‘ The Love of Three Oranges ’ , which had its premiere in Chicago in 1921 . |