Example sentences of "find [pron] [adv] impossible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't remember the names of the drinks they were ordering , and she found it nearly impossible to add up the prices of drinks for an entire table in her head . |
| 2 | My son found it almost impossible to leave the edgewoods and explore the farmland around Ryhope … ’ |
| 3 | Walking back through the park , and carefully holding the children 's hands as they crossed the busy road , Laura found it almost impossible to ignore her friend 's sly suggestion . |
| 4 | With the Khan of the Merkuts as with his own father he found it almost impossible to conceal his true emotions . |
| 5 | He 'd never shortened her name , or been a demonstrative man , and she still found it almost impossible to guess what he was thinking . |
| 6 | He valued advice because he found it almost impossible to make decisions . |
| 7 | Crucially , they found it almost impossible to make them work for a wage . |
| 8 | " My contribution , " he said , perhaps anxiously , to his daughter , who found it almost impossible to kiss him across the barrier made by these objects and her own girth . |
| 9 | Her own hand tracing the ridge of his breastbone , she found it almost impossible to comprehend that she was lying here naked with a man she barely knew , and yet she was positively revelling in the feel of warm masculine flesh , the steady rise and fall of his chest . |
| 10 | I found it almost impossible to mix with my fellow students . |
| 11 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 12 | It 's zany , it 's irreverent and it 's brimful of right-on attitudes , but I found it virtually impossible to raise a smile , never mind a laugh . |
| 13 | Attending the performance of a pastiche Jacobean tragedy , she attempts to incorporate lines from this play into the evidence she is piecing together , but then finds it utterly impossible to locate any edition which would confirm the lines she heard . |
| 14 | Jeffrey , 19 , of Woodcock Close , Bankfields , Eston , Middlesbrough , a maths student at Warwick University , says he finds it almost impossible to manage . |
| 15 | For example , his mother finds it almost impossible to prepare Veronica 's tea , which she likes to feed to the child , because John empties cupboards upstairs , turns on taps , climbs on top of the wardrobe , hangs from the banisters and shouts at the top of his voice . |
| 16 | In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury . |
| 17 | For instance , he finds it almost impossible to speak on the telephone . |
| 18 | Why had she found it so impossible to resist Roman ? |
| 19 | As they approached , the prince had found it almost impossible to tell the one from the other . |
| 20 | But later police reconstructions , one involving a heavily pregnant woman officer , revealed the victim would have ‘ found it virtually impossible to maintain her balance . ’ |
| 21 | Many people find it virtually impossible to recollect the country we were elected to change — and did change . |
| 22 | Today many people find it virtually impossible to conjure any face other than Clark Gable 's as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind . |
| 23 | Their Lordships find it quite impossible to say that he was in error , and still less in the kind of error which would entitle a reviewing court to intervene , by making the choice which he did . |
| 24 | Like many doctors still , scientists find it almost impossible to take on the notion of psychic energy . |
| 25 | With their teams of lawyers , accountants and company agents , and able to transfer money at the push of a computer button , the launderers dodge through the maze of the different countries ' jurisdictions creating a trail so complex that investigators , never mind the banks , find it almost impossible to spot what is going on . |
| 26 | Some people assert their status almost exclusively through control tactics , and find it almost impossible to ask questions that are not disguised advice or judgement . |
| 27 | Even in hospitals , they find it almost impossible to enforce . |
| 28 | Isolated from their normal environment and support network , some people find it almost impossible to relax . |
| 29 | I find it almost impossible to accept that such an injury … could have occurred without extensive bruising and swelling of the nose and probably fracture or disruption of structures within the nose and associated tissues . ’ |
| 30 | It seems that once people fully understand what a panic attack is , they are no longer frightened of the physical symptoms , and no longer have catastrophic thoughts : they find it almost impossible to have a full-blown panic attack . |