Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie suddenly found it difficult to breathe . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Engels always found it difficult to control the wild swings of his enthusiasms . |
| 4 | There could be no early start : the lads ' co-operation was needed and we always found it difficult to agree on rules . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Part of him still found it difficult to forget what he had done to Georgina Newley . |
| 10 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 11 | Mary-Claude still found it difficult to match the popular image of America with her experience of it . |
| 12 | It annoyed her that , despite everything that had been said and done between them , and which obviously had meant absolutely nothing to him , since his attitude towards her was the same as it had ever been , she still found it difficult to control her emotions in his presence . |
| 13 | Jane appreciated Doug 's perseverance but she still found it difficult to raise the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 14 | He still found it difficult to believe . |
| 15 | These limitations affected the size of the sample and also made it difficult to employ such procedures as the multiple judging of rating scales . |
| 16 | He said the uncertainty of the election date believed to be April 9 also made it difficult for candidates to organise their activities . |
| 17 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 18 | The leaders of the new organisations also found it difficult to cope with the speed of growth of their organisations . |
| 19 | Many lower-level managers found MINIS time-consuming and unhelpful , while some also found it difficult to depict their work accurately . |
| 20 | Being an honest man , he tried to answer honestly , ; and there were times when he clearly found it difficult to reconcile the absolutism of his Church 's dogma with the dictate of his own conscience . |
| 21 | The Sutton pupils quickly noticed that Russells Hall pupils , whom they had imagined would be perfect writers and illustrators , sought help from the teachers and each other and often found it difficult to locate required information . |
| 22 | They often found it difficult to resist these demands . |
| 23 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 24 | At this point we were told that the WO often found it difficult to get a clear indication of what was going on until it was too late to intervene without revocation being necessary . |
| 25 | ‘ It is n't given to everyone to have that good fortune , ’ he said rather stiffly , for he often found it difficult to know what to say about Penelope . |
| 26 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 27 | She had been denied the company of males during her early life and now found it difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex . |
| 28 | I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst . |
| 29 | The older farmers particularly found it difficult to concentrate for more than 3 hours . |
| 30 | Sighting Benedict , Theda immediately found it difficult to concentrate on what Mrs Alderley was saying . |