Example sentences of "[adv] find [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 2 | Melanie suddenly found it difficult to breathe . |
| 3 | Three o'clock found them ready and waiting , arrayed in their most festive attire . |
| 4 | The truth is that Mark had always known him as Steven and naturally found it ridiculous to change to Morrissey . |
| 5 | Who perhaps found it attractive . |
| 6 | In both Alcoa and United Shoe the courts acknowledged that the defendants had built their market shares by legal means , but none the less found them guilty because their respective dominant positions were due to conscious choice . |
| 7 | I only found you this morning , and reckoning by the tide you could n't have been there long . |
| 8 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 9 | We broke up after I met her mother , who walked into the room in which I was sitting , only to find me oblivious , shouting obscenities at a television screen whereon computerised pirates were digging up a desert island at my joystick 's behest . |
| 10 | Eventually they arrived at the kinema , only to find it dark and locked . |
| 11 | Harrington at once leapt into a slit trench in great haste , only to find it full of barbed wire which inflicted severe lacerations on him . |
| 12 | Piranha — I personally find them uninteresting |
| 13 | I personally find it repulsive to handle dead creatures or to ‘ gut ’ them for cooking , but it is not an attitude to commend in professionals like surgeons , veterinarians , nurses , forensic and medical scientists , service and police personnel , even mortuary attendants , undertakers , and butchers , who will regularly need to perform far more unsavoury tasks with equanimity . |
| 14 | I personally find it strange that there is still a stampede to buy any dog that has won anything in Germany . |
| 15 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |
| 16 | For example , the regionally-based one-stop-shops will open the science and technology base to industry , particularly small and medium sized enterprises ( SMEs ) , which have hitherto found it difficult to access effectively . |
| 17 | A central organ such as the Training Authority naturally finds it difficult to relax its hold completely but , unless it can ‘ command ’ the situation , it falls to the mercies of local ‘ market ’ economies . |
| 18 | ‘ Young people especially find it difficult to cope with death so they make up jokes about what 's happened to make it easier . ’ |
| 19 | I am constantly conscious of my illustrious predecessors and daily find it difficult to fill their shoes . |
| 20 | If you need to send the remedy through the post and are not using dropper type stock bottles I have personally found it safest to add the granule to 10mls of alcohol in say a 10ml screw cap vial . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know anything about the Bamford Hunt , ’ Meredith said , suddenly finding him unattractive and pushy , his manner hectoring , and disliking both the way he assumed she would agree with him and the arrogance he displayed in failing to give any reason why she should do as he asked . |
| 22 | The King 's sister was white-faced and tight-lipped , obviously finding it difficult to control her anger . |
| 23 | They 're still a bit wobbly , you know , and when the bombing got rough I thought I 'd better find us all somewhere to go . |
| 24 | He did not apparently find it necessary to explain the reasons for this sexist-sounding conclusion . |
| 25 | Soviet allies sometimes found themselves opposed to each other ( such as the Ba'athist governments of Syria and Iraq , or Ethiopia and Somalia ) , and others entered into agreements with Soviet adversaries ( both Angola and Mozambique , for instance , signed non-aggression agreements with South Africa in 1984 , and Soviet clients generally found it difficult to resist the powerful influence of Western governments and corporations , or in the case of Ethiopia , relief agencies ) . |
| 26 | Added to the simple foundation for it , there was the more complex one that he somehow found it essential to hide his wound about Bella from notice . |
| 27 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
| 28 | While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims . |
| 29 | But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line . |
| 30 | Afraid to be alone , Leonora nevertheless found it impossible to sleep with the large figure of Penry Vaughan beside her bed . |