Example sentences of "[pers pn] found [pron] [adj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we 've all been quick to condemn guitar manufacturers for being too timid to boldly go where no other has gone before design-wise , I found myself unwilling to applaud the Valley Arts Carlton for its daring to be different , but not being able to understand exactly why . |
| 2 | I found it helpful to read the chapters on power ultrasound , commercially available equipment and scale — up considerations together . |
| 3 | I left the team because the low pay would not cover the cost of my share in a mortgage to buy my own flat , and because I found it difficult to reconcile the separate roles of paid worker and friend , when Helen and Elizabeth recognised no such distinction . |
| 4 | I found it difficult to associate the storms of either Beethoven or Nietzsche with this douce façade and pleasant park . |
| 5 | Much later , when she returned from her walk with Rosie , she found her mama-to-be inspecting the nursery floor with Nanny . |
| 6 | She found it difficult to control the muscles of her face . |
| 7 | Even then , with a full glass of water , she found it difficult to swallow the powdery pieces . |
| 8 | Despite the effort she had made , she found it difficult to swallow the lump which rose in her throat . |
| 9 | She found it painful to anticipate the poor man 's misery , and was dismayed co recognize how ferocious was her dislike for the woman . |
| 10 | At first Clare kept in touch with Annabel after her sister returned to New York , but as her own life became increasingly difficult , she found herself unable to write the sort of letter that would prop up Annabel 's crumbling self-esteem . |
| 11 | The aid was developed using a commercial expert system shell , but we found it necessary to integrate the shell with a spreadsheet for data input , with an algorithmic language for certain numeric calculations and with a graphics package for presentation of the output . |
| 12 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 13 | But in practice he found himself able to control the Residents only by appointing men he deemed to be sufficiently compliant , an expedient to which he resorted when Temple retired prematurely from the service in 1917 . |
| 14 | He found himself able to distinguish the Manchester Corporation case [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 , by which he was technically bound , on grounds which I have to say I find unconvincing , as did Morland J. Browne J. said , at p. 178 : |
| 15 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 16 | Again he found it impossible to identify the passenger . |
| 17 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 18 | That day he found it prudent to acquire the services of one Frederick James Ratcliff , a solicitor of Blagrave Street . |
| 19 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 20 | He found it difficult to pick the right words . |
| 21 | He sat forward tensely in his seat , as if he found it difficult to see the road , and frequently wiped at the windscreen with his handkerchief . |
| 22 | He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts . |
| 23 | He was controlling his voice to an even conversational tone , using the endearment sarcastically , as if he found it difficult to disguise the build-up of tension which tightened his jaw . |
| 24 | He found it unwise to repeat the injections as long as the improvement was maintained . |
| 25 | Baldwin took the defeat less aggressively : but ‘ he found it hard to reconcile the results with the reception on tour . ’ |
| 26 | He found it hard to take the superiority in Alexei 's tone seriously . |
| 27 | He found it hard to integrate the required skills of Matthew Le Tissier into his side which annoyed the fans . |
| 28 | And of course if he found it hard to handle the ‘ absolutely platonic friendship ’ she was offering , ‘ then you must have the strength and courage to give up meeting me ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 30 | It found itself unable to prevent the pomeshchiks from buying and selling their estates and rapidly establishing de facto hereditary rights of ownership . |