Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirov found it difficult to enthuse over the photograph , mainly because of the subject matter . |
| 2 | Even knowing what he did , Kirov found it difficult to see how the optical illusion had been managed . |
| 3 | Of course , none of us particularly likes an opponent to change his tack , let alone his apparent nature , and Nonconformists who had listened to Dean Stanley and remembered the latitudinarianism of Thomas Arnold found it difficult to tolerate Lord Halifax and Bishop King . |
| 4 | It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation . |
| 5 | It was not an ideal situation , Hari found it difficult to cope with the hard exacting work of a shoemaker and the demands of her short tempered mother . |
| 6 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 7 | Regrettably for the Palace , Alan found it difficult to adjust to 2nd and then 3rd Division football , where his undoubted skills were given short shrift by our opponents and , although he always gave of his best , he was equally always a heavily marked man . |
| 8 | Ruth found it difficult to move . |
| 9 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 10 | Sandison found it difficult to take him seriously . |
| 11 | Coleridge found it difficult to accept failure quite so dispassionately . |
| 12 | However Althusser found it difficult to maintain a Marxist theory of history while avoiding its customary Hegelian form . |
| 13 | Matthew found it difficult to suggest such a thing to a man like Cashman , but , surprisingly , the businessman did not seem to take the question amiss . |
| 14 | Despite her normal command over words , June Braithwaite found it difficult to ask in ways that were likely to obtain for her what she wanted . |
| 15 | She was a talented pianist , but Mozart found it difficult not to show repulsion at his fat , perspiring , scantily clad pupil . |
| 16 | The skin puckered at the side of his lips again , this time into a sneer rather than a smile , although with Swod Blanche found it difficult to tell the difference . |
| 17 | Although Gascoigne found it difficult to escape the attentions of Walter Bonacina until he produced his headed goal four minutes from the end , he did not lose his temper . |
| 18 | Middlemass found it difficult not to fix his eyes on it . |
| 19 | Hungry as she was , Claudia found it difficult to do justice to the meal . |
| 20 | The ride itself was very open and exposed and after being so long in the close embrace of the trees Marian found it difficult to step out into the clear daylight . |
| 21 | For a while Glass found it difficult to find people to perform his work , so he formed his own ensemble ( which continues performing at a prodigious rate ) . |
| 22 | President Reagan found it difficult to reduce the US budget deficit for the same reasons . |
| 23 | All my subsequent attempts to find a mutually convenient time to meet have failed — mostly , I have to confess , because my term-time commitments in Oxford made it difficult for me get up to London except at hours when you were in Cabinet , or in the House . |
| 24 | Anne found it difficult to like Hetty , although she had to admit honestly that it was partly because she was not Sarah . |
| 25 | As so often before , Europe found it difficult to escape the effects of a deterioration in US-Soviet relations . |
| 26 | But Eric found it difficult to work . |
| 27 | Kate found it difficult to keep her colour from rising under the enthusiastic appreciation she was being subjected to , and , to try and break the dangerous spell , she broke into provocative speech . |
| 28 | But the US found it difficult to tolerate ‘ communism ’ so close to its nuclear airbase at Arandar . |
| 29 | The marshes around Altdorf made it difficult for the Orcs to group for the assault , and several mobs of Orcs disappeared forever when they strayed into the marshes . |
| 30 | After Nuremberg Oaksey found it difficult to adjust to the work of a law lord . |