Example sentences of "[adv] found it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 2 | Melanie suddenly found it difficult to breathe . |
| 3 | The truth is that Mark had always known him as Steven and naturally found it ridiculous to change to Morrissey . |
| 4 | Who perhaps found it attractive . |
| 5 | Even those who were prepared to join in found it difficult to understand what the camp was trying to achieve . |
| 6 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 7 | Soviet allies sometimes found themselves opposed to each other ( such as the Ba'athist governments of Syria and Iraq , or Ethiopia and Somalia ) , and others entered into agreements with Soviet adversaries ( both Angola and Mozambique , for instance , signed non-aggression agreements with South Africa in 1984 , and Soviet clients generally found it difficult to resist the powerful influence of Western governments and corporations , or in the case of Ethiopia , relief agencies ) . |
| 8 | Added to the simple foundation for it , there was the more complex one that he somehow found it essential to hide his wound about Bella from notice . |
| 9 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
| 10 | While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims . |
| 11 | But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line . |
| 12 | Afraid to be alone , Leonora nevertheless found it impossible to sleep with the large figure of Penry Vaughan beside her bed . |
| 13 | They all guffawed at that , with the exception of Maggie who nevertheless found it funny . |
| 14 | They always found it natural in government . |
| 15 | Engels always found it difficult to control the wild swings of his enthusiasms . |
| 16 | There could be no early start : the lads ' co-operation was needed and we always found it difficult to agree on rules . |
| 17 | He had not returned any fulsome gratitude to his staff for all the work they had put in during the day ; but he always found it difficult to express his deeper feelings . |
| 18 | Apparently , she had been taken in by the Madam who ran the house , a woman called Bella Cohen , who adopted her almost as her daughter , by personally , I always found it hard to believe myself . " |
| 19 | That is no doubt perfectly all right , but it makes you wonder why King Charles ever found it necessary to burst into the Commons with his soldiers , in search of the five rebel members . |
| 20 | Sabine still found it astonishing that the family were n't making more use of the legend to promote their wine . |
| 21 | A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses . |
| 22 | He was also formidable , demanding , difficult — and smouldering with anger , but she still found it impossible to tear her gaze away . |
| 23 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 24 | Mme Guérigny , whilst relying on her son , still found it distasteful that he was managing to survive in the face of the family tragedy . |
| 25 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 26 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 27 | Even with structured A4 records , computerised recall and repeat prescribing , and a relatively vigilant team , we still found it difficult to ensure that women who had stopped the pill because of a rise in pressure did not resume it , even when they and practice staff were apparently aware of the risk . |
| 28 | Part of him still found it difficult to forget what he had done to Georgina Newley . |
| 29 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 30 | Mary-Claude still found it difficult to match the popular image of America with her experience of it . |