Example sentences of "found it very [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it very easy to go into the science sixth and nobody suggested that it was n't a ladylike thing to do . |
| 2 | Despite the somewhat vinegary aftertaste we found it very easy to drink . |
| 3 | My mother was very kind — she was very fond of music , of Wagner in particular — but I do n't think our parents found it very easy to understand my brother and myself , especially as we had our own private language which no one could work out . |
| 4 | Our judges found it very hard to choose the winners — the entries were all so good . |
| 5 | Feargal 's blue eyes were impossibly bland and she found it very hard to keep her face straight . |
| 6 | Rain said she found it very hard to believe Maurin responsible . |
| 7 | Jenny found it very painful to recall the detail of her own dreadful childhood , and like all the others mentioned , her real name has not been revealed . |
| 8 | For dairy farmers shorter courses were run but travel could still be considerable and some found it very difficult to attend . |
| 9 | The government found it very difficult to persuade communities to help settle the Palatines . |
| 10 | His post-operative progress was complicated by a chest infection and he found it very difficult to regain his usual level of activity because his arthritis seemed worse after the operation and a day or two spent largely in bed . |
| 11 | I found it very difficult to say this word , and so I decided to shorten it and call them Houys . |
| 12 | One woman described how she experienced an aggressive pattern : ‘ I found it very difficult to cope with women over me , especially if I thought that they were n't being fair — although I had no problems when dealing with men . |
| 13 | She had complete confidence in the young nurse , although she found it very difficult to penetrate her reserve . |
| 14 | ‘ I found it very difficult to judge that first script . |
| 15 | After his experiences photographing there , he found it very difficult to continue the rather dull life of a colonial portraitist , and soon set off again for the strange and exotic land of Siam . |
| 16 | Topaz found it very difficult to obey the command for constant disdain , and soon shed it for a charm which worked like magic . |
| 17 | Civil servants found it very difficult to contradict their ministers or to pursue a different line . |
| 18 | Ian Watson , the student in question was a clever young man who had worked very hard to achieve his place at the higher seat of learning ; he found it very difficult to manage on the pittance that his father allowed him . |
| 19 | He was a very slow writer and found it very difficult to produce what Ben wanted , so the actual work of the libretto was often well behind the work of the music . |
| 20 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 21 | Little wonder , as things turned out , that in adult life poor ‘ W. C. T. ’ , as his cousin William Jowett Titford called him , found it very difficult to convince bureaucrats that he was really called ‘ William ’ , though everyone knew him as ‘ Charles ’ , like his father . |
| 22 | Sandison found it very difficult to understand him because he spoke very quickly and occasionally slipped into Neapolitan dialect . |
| 23 | Ann found it very difficult to tell , just as she had found it difficult to fathom out the workings of Martha 's mind in the days before she and her twin were married . |
| 24 | She found it very difficult to get out of bed , so we moved life to centre it in the bedroom . |
| 25 | I found it very difficult to get past the first fleet but when I did the game became more enjoyable especially as the 256 colour graphics match most games out today . |
| 26 | She found it very difficult to get her tongue round the unfamiliar words . |
| 27 | ‘ Everybody wanted a piece of my action and I found it very difficult to adjust . |
| 28 | He found it very difficult to work in collaboration with others . |
| 29 | Even though she almost wholly accepted who Tammuz was , if only as an abstract , she still found it very difficult to look upon him as her father in flesh and blood . |
| 30 | Eve , the present manager of the home , found it very difficult to learn what to do when she first started work as a care assistant . |