Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] difficult " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 2 | He still found it difficult to believe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |