Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 2 | I found it impossible to make relationships , I was one hell of a mess . |
| 3 | She found it hard making friends there . |
| 4 | During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action . |
| 5 | Despite the opportunities opened out from the late eighteenth century by an expanding grain trade , a marked increase in the land available , and a steady rise in labour and money dues extracted from the peasantry , the nobility found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 6 | Gorge and Mary Webster eventually had another twelve children and found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 7 | Such an open-ended commitment to a government that most Unionists regarded with contempt could hardly last for long : Law found it convenient to make use of the Unionist Business Committee , constituted in January 1915 as an official opposition group , and he suggested Walter Long as its chairman , so harnessing Long 's vindictive powers and giving the party some means of influencing the government without breaking the party truce . |
| 8 | This gave them a cushion of safety but often meant that the opposition found it easier to make space in midfield . |
| 9 | Says it ready to make stereotype judgements about personality , E G you can tell he 's anxious by his voice is in inverted commas or she sounds very strong minded . |
| 10 | I mean Paul was one of his friends he never had that many so that probably means he finds it hard to make friends , you can tell |
| 11 | She admits in the final analysis she finds it difficult to make sense of the ‘ gratuitous savagery ’ . |
| 12 | All of us , during the time that we have been directly engaged in these matters , have found it easier to make progress when the media have not been looking over our shoulders and breathing on the backs of our necks . |
| 13 | When he lifted his hand she shrank back , terrified that he would touch her again , but all he did was push the heavy dark hair back from his forehead , his voice coolly impersonal when he answered , ‘ I always find it useful to make plans . ’ |
| 14 | In contrast , the more experiences and activities are such that we find it hard to make sense of them existing or occurring in isolation , the more difficult it will be , on Moore 's principles , to find anything of real inherent value in them . |
| 15 | As a small company of 15 boys we find it hard to make ends meet . |
| 16 | Some of the smaller stations already find it difficult to make ends meet — and the arrival of a national commercial channel , which would take most of the country-wide advertising , could put them out of business . |
| 17 | Dr Spink said : ‘ He ought to be defending those who are finding it difficult to make ends meet here . ’ |
| 18 | I do not question the fact that in some parts of the country students are finding it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 19 | Because I am quite shy , I am finding it hard to make friends . |
| 20 | They were finding it hard to make ends meet and life had become very miserable . |
| 21 | This does take a bit of sussing out , but once mastered it all makes sense . |
| 22 | Because of this , they do n't find it easy to make friends and are very difficult to get on with . |
| 23 | In any income range , people can find it difficult to make ends meet — especially with steep inflation . |