Example sentences of "find it [adj] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just could n't get the Queen to talk about the situation , she seemed to find it impossible to get involved ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’ |
| 3 | I think a lot of people tend to find it hard to get by on a , a monthly pay packet as it is |
| 4 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 5 | I found it impossible to get from Mr and Mrs what their care would be , they were either unable or unwilling to discuss it with me , unquote . |
| 6 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 7 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 8 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 9 | ( But even they may not be accurate : census-takers last year reported that , in some areas , they found it hard to get people to fill in their forms , because they thought the census had some connection with poll tax . |
| 10 | In this earlier period , married women found it hard to get employment , except in exceptional industries , such as cotton textiles , or as casual employees . |
| 11 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 12 | Knitters were pressed to rent the stocking frames and those who owned their own found it hard to get work when times were less busy . |
| 13 | Disturbed by this strange and brutal event , Tallis found it hard to get to sleep again . |
| 14 | Found it hard to get our Cortina round . |
| 15 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 16 | I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few . |
| 17 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 18 | The newly-painted pole was slippery and he found it difficult to get a good grip . |
| 19 | ‘ I was a bit young to go there because I found it difficult to get to know people , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 21 | If you 've ever drilled into a water pipe or found it difficult to get a good fixing on a wall , you need a Rapitest Wire , Pipe & Stud Detector . |
| 22 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |
| 23 | He found it difficult to get worked up about buildings and tended to think of landscapes as habitats rather than objects of aesthetic concern . |
| 24 | ‘ I found it difficult to get perfect results with the spiral and flat wands . |
| 25 | He found it difficult to get on with people but he was n't a bad man . ’ |
| 26 | At this point we were told that the WO often found it difficult to get a clear indication of what was going on until it was too late to intervene without revocation being necessary . |
| 27 | He was n't an official nominee of this parish council , but he er was a person who attended the meetings and , and in Stuart 's , with Stuart 's resignation from this , because he found it difficult to get to , because of commitments , erm it 's suggested that the parish council might be able to identify one of its number in order to be able to at least continue some erm represent private representation on the Liaison Committee . |
| 28 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 29 | He set off briskly in what might be the right direction , but found it difficult to get up any speed over the snagging grass . |
| 30 | Although it seemed very efficient , one improvement I might suggest would be to mount the covers on spring rollers , because the drivers found it difficult to get to the bikes with the covers pressing on them while they worked . |