Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] found [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I found them both informative and entertaining . |
| 2 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 3 | I was lucky , bought the books , took the treasure home and found they only covered A to M. Nevertheless I found them interesting and still thought they were a bargain . |
| 4 | He shrugged but his gaze did n't leave hers and somehow she found it impossible to look away , as , instinctively , she knew he was thinking of the moment in the car the night before when he had touched her hand and she had pulled away so sharply . |
| 5 | I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength . |
| 6 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 7 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 8 | Running amok I found it strange you should attempt to glorify the existence of the so-called ‘ travellers ’ . |
| 9 | Once she would have chatted , laughed , teased him , asked where he came from , what he did ; now she found it hard to summon up the energy to care . |
| 10 | Yet Morse 's mind was never more fertile than when faced with some apparently insuperable obstacle , and even now he found it difficult to abandon his earlier , sweet hypothesis about the murder of Theodore Kemp . |
| 11 | Well I found it easy . |
| 12 | Well I found it difficult because I I still can nae play golf well , but I could play even less well then . |
| 13 | er well I found it harder to do it |
| 14 | Well she found it cold here and she . |
| 15 | And it was surprising how frequently they found it necessary to motor down to Edmonton or Calgary . |
| 16 | He was able to extend his law to cubic and biquadratic residues , but to state his results elegantly he found it helpful to introduce numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib respectively where a , b are integers , p is a complex cube root of unity and , of course , i is the usual square root of -1 . |
| 17 | At first it was quite sweet and enjoyable , but then I found it sickly and thick . |
| 18 | Sometimes I found it impossible to concentrate on my school work as the activities of the bird populations outside kept grabbing my attention . |
| 19 | ‘ But I had reached the stage where I found it difficult to be motivated for run-of-the-mill games . |
| 20 | Be brave , she reminded herself , and kept her features composed when , ‘ Thank you , Fabia , ’ Ven began , and , seeming encouraged that she had stayed , ‘ To explain more fully why I found it necessary to be so brutal when you were such a delight … ’ |
| 21 | But again I found it difficult to be rude . |
| 22 | CAN YOU tell me why you found it necessary to print such an offensive cartoon ( Lagerland , page 40 ) ? |
| 23 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 24 | We 've got some idea as to why , why we found it difficult to read . |
| 25 | ‘ It must have been in the forest — ’ Joan said dreamily ‘ — because that is where they found him next day . |
| 26 | Again he found it impossible to identify the passenger . |
| 27 | I think subsequently she found it harder to deal with . ’ |
| 28 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |