Example sentences of "he [adv] found [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to the simple foundation for it , there was the more complex one that he somehow found it essential to hide his wound about Bella from notice . |
| 2 | But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line . |
| 3 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 4 | He still found it difficult to believe . |
| 5 | The same thought had crossed Dalziel 's mind much earlier , but he still found it hard to believe . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had not returned any fulsome gratitude to his staff for all the work they had put in during the day ; but he always found it difficult to express his deeper feelings . |
| 8 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 9 | He also found it unacceptable that ‘ although this has not been set down in black and white , the West is clearly inclined to have the conference discuss the regime existing in Afghanistan , and the character of Soviet-Afghan relations ’ . |
| 10 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 11 | Nigel was annoyed , but he also found it funny . |
| 12 | Being an honest man , he tried to answer honestly , ; and there were times when he clearly found it difficult to reconcile the absolutism of his Church 's dogma with the dictate of his own conscience . |
| 13 | ‘ It is n't given to everyone to have that good fortune , ’ he said rather stiffly , for he often found it difficult to know what to say about Penelope . |
| 14 | He actually found it easier to walk backwards . |