Example sentences of "[verb] it hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So many of the other bands that come over are going to find it hard here because they do n't really sing and they do n't write songs in the traditional sense . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone coming into a derby is going to find it hard to find their feet , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyone coming into a derby is going to find it hard to find their feet . |
| 4 | I think a lot of people tend to find it hard to get by on a , a monthly pay packet as it is |
| 5 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 6 | Even as a good Fascist Ezra found it hard to swallow the persecution of the Jews . |
| 7 | I took a bus there , but found it hard to tell what the place might have been like . |
| 8 | He dreaded his own Bible class and found it hard to keep teenagers in order . |
| 9 | But for a while we found it hard . |
| 10 | But they should draw comfort from the knowledge that the economists involved often found it hard to understand one another . |
| 11 | Nearly twenty years later Phoebe still found it hard to suppress a little vindictive chuckle at the looks of growing shock on Jim 's face -Jim and Lisa 's Jonathan and Sue 's Alan — when they discovered that their righteousness was not enough . |
| 12 | She found it hard to remember with any precision exactly what had happened next . |
| 13 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
| 14 | The couple have a home in Hollywood and a farm in Vermont , but Michael , who is widely regarded in Hollywood as a workaholic , found it hard to put family first and is now keen to produce his own films as well as act in them . |
| 15 | He found it hard to believe that the 3 per cent of allegations of racial discrimination sustained by the authority could reflect the true picture , and he supported an independent investigatory agency to handle all aspects of complaints against the police . |
| 16 | Many who professed to revere the principle found it hard to like the example they were faced with in Mr Rushdie 's case : the book unreadable and the writer a pain in the neck . |
| 17 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 18 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
| 19 | Sometimes she went with him , but found it hard to keep up . |
| 20 | But just as the people in Exodus 16 , when first given the manna , found it hard to come to terms with God 's meticulous generosity , so now they are blinded by the clarity of God 's judgement . |
| 21 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 22 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 23 | Because they had been confused and upset early on in the campaign they found it hard to relax and trust us . |
| 24 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 25 | I worked on and off on Tremayne 's book for the rest of the morning but found it hard to concentrate . |
| 26 | I found it hard to picture what kind of landscape those statistics might have shaped , until I opened the Ordnance Survey map to find half of it coloured green with a great blue stain in the centre . |
| 27 | I actually found it hard to make myself make a divot at first — it just seemed wrong . |
| 28 | And of course if he found it hard to handle the ‘ absolutely platonic friendship ’ she was offering , ‘ then you must have the strength and courage to give up meeting me ’ . |
| 29 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 30 | All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help . |