Example sentences of "[pers pn] hard [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might find it hard today to agree on a description of the differences between women and men — and perhaps they are less marked than we used to think . |
| 2 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
| 3 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 4 | He found it hard enough to persuade senior officers to go along with the peace settlement . |
| 5 | I find it hard enough to do descriptions of today . |
| 6 | Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past . |
| 7 | I found it hard therefore to understand why she should act so far outside her own political ideology . |