Example sentences of "[pron] i find [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in my life I found myself surrounded by friends — friends whom I found interesting , and friends who appeared to find me interesting , bright and witty , despite my all-too-evident disadvantages . |
| 2 | They have a new , quiet , charming , and very well qualified resident doctor Doctor Booth , who has made a special study of excess weight , and whom I found full of sound advice . |
| 3 | There was a lot of passing , running about and kicking which I found encouraging for this season . |
| 4 | A radio was turned on and it played music , which I found odd . |
| 5 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 6 | With only one to go , I asked the doctor from Cairo if he 'd like a dekko down the eyepiece , but he declined , which I found surprising in view of the scarcity of polyps in Egypt . |
| 7 | For about £40 a head the dishes we enjoyed were ‘ foie gras de canard confit en terrine ’ ( terrine of duck liver ) , a most unusual dish ; ‘ terrine d'anguille fumé tiede ’ ( smoked eel rillette ) which I found delicious and very different . |
| 8 | His attitude towards me was one of dumb , doglike devotion , which I found tiresome , but in the circumstances he seemed better than no boyfriend at all . |
| 9 | I remember her claim — which I found exciting — that semen contains Vitamin E and is therefore good for the skin . |
| 10 | I could not read the name but underneath , with a defiance which I found sympathetic , somebody else had written : |
| 11 | I tell you , I 've had Sound Citys , which were garbage , Marshall , which I found unreliable and kind of loud , Roland Jazz Chorus 120s — I 've used those live with the distortion button turned on — and I had a Music Man amp for a while . |
| 12 | There was a report from the London Branch of Convocation which I found interesting . |
| 13 | Commenting on a considerable drop in sales at a book fair , one experienced bookman wrote about these travel books : ‘ That such a range of books which I find boring beyond belief — I prefer to call them non-books — was due for a shake-out , appeared inevitable to me . ’ |
| 14 | It is this , in the end , which I find disquieting about Callinicos ' book . |
| 15 | The reasons behind thousands upon thousands of black kids immersing themselves in sport may stem from basic inequalities which I find unacceptable , and , indeed , immoral , but I can not affirm that sport is some device for the perpetuation of these inequalities any more than I can agree with some critics , such as Paul Hoch , that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination designed to slough off energies or divert them into meaningless channels ( 1972 ) . |
| 16 | But this is only a ground for drawing a strong contrast between them and ‘ primary qualities ’ like shape , for those who , like Mackie , take a strong realist line about the latter which I find unacceptable . |
| 17 | Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious . |
| 18 | I have written about a T.V series which I find appalling . |
| 19 | In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game . |
| 20 | Some years ago I learnt this neckband method which I find invaluable . |
| 21 | This is a phenomenon which I find impressive and mysterious . |
| 22 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 23 | Beverley Halstead has admirably avoided these pitfalls in his most recent book , which I find delightful . |
| 24 | which I find exciting , but , but interesting in it . |
| 25 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 26 | They emerge nicely plump , with a roasted , smoky flavour which I find irresistible ; although only , it must be said , if they have been dried without the sulphur dioxide used as a preservative for dried fruit . |
| 27 | You make me say things which should remain unsaid , you pressure me on an emotional level which I find difficult to control . |
| 28 | ‘ It is the delicacy in myself which I find insuperable . |
| 29 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |
| 30 | There is also a kind of prurient obsession with filth among many purity campaigners which I find distasteful . |