Example sentences of "but [pron] found [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is fine in principle , but I found it awkward in practice . |
| 2 | Invaluable experience , of course , but I found it frustrating in that , so often , I was n't able to see cases right through . ’ |
| 3 | The smaller diameter tube tended to choke with shavings , but I found it cheap and well worthwhile to buy another large section suction tube . |
| 4 | This was all very necessary , but I found it dull stuff indeed after the immediacy of Ultra . |
| 5 | The man in the bushes by the gate still worried her but I found it easy to isolate him from our friendship , although she felt now that he was trying to gas her ; the fumes from someone 's central heating outlet , discernible on the otherwise pure air , had inspired and confirmed her in this idea . |
| 6 | A little unsteadily I wandered away to the library , but I found it difficult to concentrate on the uses of the Russian Imperfective . |
| 7 | She made excuses for them , but she found them depressing . |
| 8 | But she found it impossible not to respond — either to him , or to everything around them . |
| 9 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 10 | But she found it hard to work , with all the distractions of the household . |
| 11 | Yea , but we found him bald too , eyes like lead , |
| 12 | The aid was developed using a commercial expert system shell , but we found it necessary to integrate the shell with a spreadsheet for data input , with an algorithmic language for certain numeric calculations and with a graphics package for presentation of the output . |
| 13 | So we put a , as a rider on , that it had already passed the rider it says there , but we found it unacceptable at P A G. |
| 14 | Obviously the detailed nature of these checks depends on the material submitted , but we found it invaluable to look at the output from these checks before looking at the coursework itself . |
| 15 | He was diffident — unlike Ernest who was good at all games — and preoccupied with his country pursuits , but they found him companionable ; himself capable of long hours of solitude , he could always find acquaintances ready to share his company for a time ; but only a few dedicated companions shared his exacting singleminded concentration on these occupations . |
| 16 | They had , but they found it difficult because you 'd got ta , got ta get a licence to keep them you see . |
| 17 | United , without the injured Franz Carr and suspended top scorer Brian Deane , had recalled Cork and Adrian Littlejohn but they found it hard going against a Rovers defence boosted by the return of Irish skipper Kevin Moran . |
| 18 | ‘ Cafiero , that rich son of a pig , he came this way , tried to make the peasants rise on his own estates , ’ Davide 's father was talking , ‘ but he found them hard to excite down Acquaqueta way in spite of everything . |
| 19 | But he found it impossible . |
| 20 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 21 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 22 | But he found it difficult to feel much pity for Yorick . |