Example sentences of "was having difficulty " in BNC.
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| 1 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 2 | Not a single borough in the capital was having difficulty finding enough flats and houses . |
| 3 | The Headmaster was having difficulty in controlling the mob . |
| 4 | He said that they were professional witnesses from London , explaining that , if a prosecution lawyer was having difficulty in obtaining a conviction , he would handsomely reward a witness who would state under oath that he had seen the crime committed . |
| 5 | She was having difficulty in fixing a chain to Dulcie 's collar . |
| 6 | After her husband 's departure , Margaret had been feeling very miserable and frustrated , was having difficulty concentrating at work and had been avoiding her usual social contacts . |
| 7 | The water was quite deep , and I was having difficulty finding the river-bed with the pole . |
| 8 | Mrs Stych was having difficulty starting her little car , so Mrs Frizzell bobbed her flower-decked head down until her hawklike nose was level with the half-open window . |
| 9 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 10 | When I was n't dozing off in chapel , I was having difficulty in keeping awake in class and , to a greater extent , during prep-time , when I was supposed to be working alone . |
| 11 | In 1922 the manager of the Grand Theater in DeQueen , Arkansas , explained to the readers of the Exhibitors Herald that he was having difficulty in choosing between the easily satisfied ‘ masses ’ , who just wanted shorts , and the much more difficult to please ‘ classes ’ , who wanted programmes especially prepared for them . |
| 12 | She screwed up her eyes as if she was having difficulty seeing her child . |
| 13 | William was having difficulty getting his Panasonic printer to print multi-page Word For Windows documents . |
| 14 | He was now trying to drag one of the wavy-bladed Malayan daggers out of his belt , which was actually a cummerbund ; he was having difficulty , though , because the corrugated edges had got caught in his shirt . |
| 15 | The marquis was having difficulty keeping his hands off Horatia . |
| 16 | He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal . |
| 17 | One was having difficulty fitting wheels on his police car . |
| 18 | The bomber released its load because it was having difficulty reaching the coast . |
| 19 | Her companions alerted theatre staff when it became clear that she was having difficulty breathing . |
| 20 | Gabriel was having difficulty training this young dog , which , although enthusiastic , still did not understand a sheep dog 's duties . |
| 21 | Ash paced purposefully on , long flinging strides I was having difficulty in keeping up with . |
| 22 | At table that evening , the current Macleod seemed depressed ; he was having difficulty with relatives . |
| 23 | Evans was having difficulty in controlling his voice . |
| 24 | One of her students , Simon , was having difficulty gathering the money to pay his yearly fees , despite working every available holiday . |
| 25 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 26 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 27 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 28 | Suddenly she was having difficulty swallowing . |
| 29 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 30 | Yes , ’ he muttered , and frowned as though he was having difficulty getting a grip on what she was saying . |