Example sentences of "they find [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many people visit the countryside and pick wild flowers because they find them pretty , only to have those flowers wilt and die long before they can be arranged in a vase . |
| 2 | Services are built round an individual 's needs in a flexible way , rather than people being forced to comply with existing service patterns , whether or not they find them convenient or useful . |
| 3 | ‘ They find me useful , on occasion . ’ |
| 4 | Looking over the abyss of infinite possibility , they find it easy to slip into endless striving and pursuit of whatever is , at that moment , desired . |
| 5 | Again , women well know what it is like to be treated as children and they find it offensive . |
| 6 | The letter enters the public domain as soon as it has been drawn to the attention of the Select Committee , and the Government may use it in Council discussions — which they do if they find it helpful to their position . |
| 7 | ‘ They find it all rather amusing but it 's a different story when they have a go and fall off , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ They are educated , as Prince Charles had been , with other boys at a boarding school and they find it impossible to deal with an hysterical woman . |
| 9 | ‘ They find it useful , especially those that live out of town . |
| 10 | In my experience children in primary schools as well as older pupils not only can see this point , but also enjoy doing so — they find it intriguing . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you suppose they find it monotonous ? ’ |
| 12 | Besides , once they 've gone into mourning , they find it cheaper to stay that way . |
| 13 | If it 's the usual question of protection that so many couples ca n't bring themselves to discuss because they find it unromantic or embarrassing — heaven knows why , when they 're close enough to be going to bed together — you can relax . |
| 14 | Now it happens that when some substances crystallize they find it easier to do so if some kind of irregularity is present . |
| 15 | And they find it easier to come here now . |
| 16 | It 's like expecting the class system to change once the workers have explained to the ruling class why they do n't like poverty ; or racism to go away once blacks have made clear why they find it oppressive . |
| 17 | It can be a time when a sensitive friend can make sure the bereaved person is especially thought of , so that they are not alone if they find it hard to be by themselves on those days . |
| 18 | Just as they can not cope with the nutritional inferiority of a vegetarian diet , so they find it hard to deal with even a moderate dose of alcohol and may start to vomit , collapse or even go into a coma . |
| 19 | Some doctors are so overwhelmed by their own emotions that they find it hard to handle the mother 's . |
| 20 | It takes months for inmates to be that open , back on A wing they find it hard to understand . |
| 21 | It would then be folly for the political and cultural left to ignore this process because they find it unpleasant . |
| 22 | They find it difficult to establish what is available , where . |
| 23 | They find it difficult to defend themselves from such attacks . |
| 24 | One problem that a lot of knitters have , to start with , is that they find it difficult to free the weaving yarn from the sinker plate when changing it from one side of the sinker plate to the other . |
| 25 | But the people who are running them often do not know of each other 's existence , or if they do , they find it difficult to cooperate with one another . |
| 26 | If we look at it another way , we can suggest that many physics students feel that they must accept what they are told by their departments and that they find it difficult to challenge what they are told . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's when they think he 's a gallstone they find it difficult . ’ |
| 28 | The problem there is that graduates are so terribly boring and uninteresting people basically are n't they that they find it difficult to impart their er |
| 29 | There are children so painfully shy that they find it difficult to voice publicly " Yes " or " No " . |
| 30 | Is there anybody you know that , that also have got the knowledge but they find it difficult ? |