Example sentences of "and i found [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 2 | The Alpha 's ability to delete a whole effect from a patch ( or add another ) is a godsend , and I found it useful to dispense with the equaliser , which worked for some sounds but definitely not for others . |
| 3 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 4 | The guys would chat me up , y'know , like — [ imitating an African accent ] ‘ I want you to be my wife ’ — and I found it all really flattering . |
| 5 | I was about ten at the time and I found it all a bit frightening . |
| 6 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |
| 7 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
| 8 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 9 | ( This was very strange for me and I found it hard to talk about . |
| 10 | ‘ My legs were very weak and I found it difficult to walk , ’ he said . |
| 11 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |
| 12 | During the war , when we were doing research on strong plastics , Professor Charles Gurney used to recite this little ditty to me nearly every day and I found it depressing because wood was in fact a better material for making aeroplanes than the plastics which we could then produce . |