Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said some people who found it difficult to pay for relatives ' funerals — due to redundancy or mortgage payments were offered payment by monthly instalments while others who would not or could not pay were pursued to the small claims court . |
| 2 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
| 3 | He was a taciturn man who found it difficult to talk to a boy ; but he did sometimes spare time to tell him of his travels in the wilder parts of Alberta , of encounters with grizzly bears , white water rushing through narrow gorges , being lost in unexpected snowstorms , in an unconquered wilderness totally alien to his suburb-bred son . |
| 4 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 5 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 6 | When King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden turned his attention to objects made of this material in building his collection of Chinese art there were those who found it difficult to reconcile such pieces with his choice porcelains , jades and lacquer-work . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's sixty if she 's a day , ’ said Camille , who found it difficult , in her more regressive moments , to believe that anyone over the age of about twenty could find much reason for living . |
| 8 | She was a Sagittarian , open and naïve , a Pollyanna without guile or finesse who found it difficult to lie . |