Example sentences of "he found it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Matza ( 1964 ) did enquire into the matter ( using his attack on subcultural theory as a basis for attacking positivist criminology generally ) he found it simply was not the case : on the whole delinquents seemed to hold very conventional values . |
| 2 | Dr Tydeman said that he had only once seen a patient suffering from the condition and he found it particularly frightening and disturbing . |
| 3 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 4 | ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept . |
| 5 | Now he had sorted out the technique of using the deaf-aid , he found it wonderfully relaxing . |
| 6 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 7 | Later , after Calandrini had attended the synod of Dort and finished his studies in theology under John Prideaux [ q.v. ] at Exeter College , Oxford , graduating BD in 1620 , he found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his Calvinism with De Dominis 's Catholic syncretism . |
| 8 | Very quickly he found it increasingly painful to breathe . |
| 9 | Yes , he found it perversely beautiful , too . |
| 10 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
| 11 | Despite all attempts to fulfil his artistic ideals by being in London and in contract with all the leading painters of the time , he found it strangely frustrating . |
| 12 | ‘ I know , ’ she allowed with a mocking little smile , painfully aware that she could not control what was about to happen but planning more of the same for later , since he found it so unwelcome , her small revenge . |
| 13 | He found it so difficult to concentrate . |
| 14 | He had often wondered why he found it more offensive and ghoulish than the autopsy itself . |
| 15 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 16 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 17 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 18 | In fact he found it very difficult not to jerk the stick forwards for recoveries . |
| 19 | After his experiences photographing there , he found it very difficult to continue the rather dull life of a colonial portraitist , and soon set off again for the strange and exotic land of Siam . |
| 20 | Ian Watson , the student in question was a clever young man who had worked very hard to achieve his place at the higher seat of learning ; he found it very difficult to manage on the pittance that his father allowed him . |
| 21 | He found it very easy to be ‘ professional ’ in the sense of doing the job competently while being totally uninvolved , and often the lack of involvement showed . |
| 22 | He found it very difficult to work in collaboration with others . |
| 23 | He found it very hard selling me the smaller works . |
| 24 | His post-operative progress was complicated by a chest infection and he found it very difficult to regain his usual level of activity because his arthritis seemed worse after the operation and a day or two spent largely in bed . |
| 25 | He produced his remarkable output in four hours a day — he found it too exacting to do more — in the mornings , with afternoons and evenings often spent walking or listening to records . |
| 26 | He found it deeply offensive to think of Alice-his beautiful Alice — being rejected by anyone . |
| 27 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 28 | After the two had left , Thomas confided to Thornton that he found it quite extraordinary that these two people , who were so naive and inexperienced , could be at the top of what was supposed to be a concrete business proposal . |
| 29 | He valued advice because he found it almost impossible to make decisions . |
| 30 | He found it almost impossible . |