Example sentences of "that i find " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 'T WAS on the Isle of Capreee that I found her … ’ |
2 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
3 | At the risk of seeming ungracious to my hosts , I must record that I found the Stiftungs beer more complex in character and traditional in style . |
4 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
5 | ‘ Those are turf strips , ’ my guide informed me in her calm , assured voice that I found so soothing . |
6 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
7 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
8 | You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master . |
9 | Though packed with information , the facts are presented critically such that I found some sections fascinating — eg the section on factors influencing the performance of liquid-liquid extraction coils . |
10 | All that is a way of saying that I found , and still do find , the conscious act of sitting down to meditate — in the accepted way of the word — an exceedingly difficult act . |
11 | On a personal level , I have to say that I found the fellowship 's officials to be delightfully hospitable and to have a genuine love for God . |
12 | Of the 15 reviews that I found , every one denigrated IQ tests , often vitriolically . |
13 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
14 | It was n't until The Byrds ’ ‘ Untitled ’ double album came out with the liner notes explaining all about the string-bender that I found out what a fool I 'd been … |
15 | The second side-effect — and this is n't necessarily a criticism — was that I found this guitar absolutely unbearable to play unless it was as near perfectly in tune as possible . |
16 | That was the thing that I found exciting about the script . |
17 | And there were some things about Mr Levy that I found very odd when I read your book . |
18 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |
19 | It was a contrast that I found intriguing , and when given the opportunity embarked on research to explore further its nature and consequences . |
20 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |
21 | From that small beginning I noted down quotations that I found meaningful , prayers that I found helpful to my spiritual life , occasionally writing a prayer that almost wrote itself after a meditation . |
22 | From that small beginning I noted down quotations that I found meaningful , prayers that I found helpful to my spiritual life , occasionally writing a prayer that almost wrote itself after a meditation . |
23 | It was n't until I was much older still that I found out she 'd committed suicide . ’ |
24 | But it was n't till after school the following afternoon that I found time to go . |
25 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
26 | She was such a sweet-natured , generous girl — I had never before nor have I since met anyone so naturally , if indiscriminately , kind and loving — that I found it hard to deny her anything . |
27 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
28 | I was dragged to a place that I found later was the premises of the Secret Police , ‘ the complex ’ , code named ‘ Fixed Point One ( FP1 ) ’ . |
29 | It was a lack of information , and sudden changes , that I found disappointing . ’ |
30 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |