Example sentences of "still found it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses . |
| 2 | He was also formidable , demanding , difficult — and smouldering with anger , but she still found it impossible to tear her gaze away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It annoyed her that , despite everything that had been said and done between them , and which obviously had meant absolutely nothing to him , since his attitude towards her was the same as it had ever been , she still found it difficult to control her emotions in his presence . |
| 5 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 6 | Jane appreciated Doug 's perseverance but she still found it difficult to raise the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 7 | Part of him still found it difficult to forget what he had done to Georgina Newley . |
| 8 | Even with structured A4 records , computerised recall and repeat prescribing , and a relatively vigilant team , we still found it difficult to ensure that women who had stopped the pill because of a rise in pressure did not resume it , even when they and practice staff were apparently aware of the risk . |
| 9 | Mary-Claude still found it difficult to match the popular image of America with her experience of it . |
| 10 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 11 | He still found it difficult to believe . |
| 12 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 13 | Nearly twenty years later Phoebe still found it hard to suppress a little vindictive chuckle at the looks of growing shock on Jim 's face -Jim and Lisa 's Jonathan and Sue 's Alan — when they discovered that their righteousness was not enough . |
| 14 | She still found it hard to believe that any British ship could be in danger so near to home ; even when Jock had explained that unless a submarine was in water deep enough in which to dive , an escort was essential . |
| 15 | She still found it hard to believe the Doctor 's explanation . |
| 16 | The same thought had crossed Dalziel 's mind much earlier , but he still found it hard to believe . |
| 17 | She still found it hard to believe that someone would go to all that trouble just for her . |
| 18 | Kate still found it hard to believe that this single-minded , dedicated , successful career man could be so uncertain of himself . |
| 19 | She still found it hard to assimilate the way her life had changed so drastically in the course of a mere few days . |