Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |
| 2 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 3 | He found it difficult to accept his own failings . |
| 4 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 5 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 6 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
| 7 | Now he said he found it difficult to show his feelings , but he clearly experienced the world through his senses , particularly touch . |
| 8 | The newly-painted pole was slippery and he found it difficult to get a good grip . |
| 9 | Now , physically close for the first time , he found it difficult to keep his eyes off her , living flesh and remembered image seeming to fuse into a presence both potent and disturbing . |
| 10 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 11 | After years of plotting against the Russians , he found it difficult to trust any of them . |
| 12 | He found it difficult to have any sympathy for Katherine Lundy in this instance ; this situation was entirely of her own creation . |
| 13 | Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman . |
| 14 | He found it difficult to talk ; having found a bottle containing tincture of iodine in the First Aid box , he held a saturated plug of cotton wool against his raging tooth . |
| 15 | He found it difficult to breathe . |
| 16 | When I told him my story , a few hours later , he found it difficult to believe . |
| 17 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |
| 18 | But then , he found it difficult to believe anyone . |
| 19 | He found it difficult to get worked up about buildings and tended to think of landscapes as habitats rather than objects of aesthetic concern . |
| 20 | He sat forward tensely in his seat , as if he found it difficult to see the road , and frequently wiped at the windscreen with his handkerchief . |
| 21 | But he found it difficult to feel much pity for Yorick . |
| 22 | The situation was one he found it difficult to handle . |
| 23 | He found it difficult to get on with people but he was n't a bad man . ’ |
| 24 | He was n't an official nominee of this parish council , but he er was a person who attended the meetings and , and in Stuart 's , with Stuart 's resignation from this , because he found it difficult to get to , because of commitments , erm it 's suggested that the parish council might be able to identify one of its number in order to be able to at least continue some erm represent private representation on the Liaison Committee . |
| 25 | The breath was constricted in his chest and he found it difficult to swallow . |
| 26 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |
| 27 | Still , having slipped into a B-film cop part , he found it difficult to slough off the role . |
| 28 | He found it difficult to sleep at night , anxious lest his delay might cause further tragedy at Godstowe . |
| 29 | He was controlling his voice to an even conversational tone , using the endearment sarcastically , as if he found it difficult to disguise the build-up of tension which tightened his jaw . |
| 30 | He found it difficult to know how to react ; when he received a bonus he did n't tell them , it would have seemed unfair . |