Example sentences of "they found it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 2 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
| 3 | And it was surprising how frequently they found it necessary to motor down to Edmonton or Calgary . |
| 4 | Because they saw the world as composed of groups rather than of individuals , they found it easy to articulate rules of general application , to which exceptions required specific dispensation . |
| 5 | When Kawasaki began operations in their US plant at Nebraska they found it preferable to import components from their subcontractors back in Japan who could even at that distance , guarantee weekly deliveries . |
| 6 | In general local law societies disagreed with the question , although they found it difficult to reach a consensus on the issue . |
| 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 | 15% said they were badly affected — and of those , roughly one half said their main problem was that they found it difficult to pick up their usual programmes on LW . |
| 9 | They found it difficult to rouse him and on seeing the bottle of tablets on the floor next to him , called an ambulance to take him to hospital . |
| 10 | Carers were asked whether they found it difficult to cope with any of the tasks they performed . |
| 11 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 14 | More important , perhaps , they found it difficult to understand why wines which smelled so seductively sweet should taste dry to the point of austerity . |
| 15 | In the public life of the former colonial power they found it gratifying to urge hatred of the alien race and of political liberalism alike . |
| 16 | There was so much untidy milling about , however , that in the confines of the tiny space they found it hard to organize themselves and eventually seemed to abandon the attempt . |
| 17 | Because they had been confused and upset early on in the campaign they found it hard to relax and trust us . |
| 18 | They found it hard to cope with the implications of the objective open-endedness of the Council 's vast range of teaching . |
| 19 | They 've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools , where they found it hard to fit in . |
| 20 | ( 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 . |
| 21 | United , without the injured Franz Carr and suspended top scorer Brian Deane , had recalled Cork and Adrian Littlejohn but they found it hard going against a Rovers defence boosted by the return of Irish skipper Kevin Moran . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |