Example sentences of "[vb past] it hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as a good Fascist Ezra found it hard to swallow the persecution of the Jews . |
| 2 | I took a bus there , but found it hard to tell what the place might have been like . |
| 3 | He dreaded his own Bible class and found it hard to keep teenagers in order . |
| 4 | But for a while we found it hard . |
| 5 | But they should draw comfort from the knowledge that the economists involved often found it hard to understand one another . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She found it hard to remember with any precision exactly what had happened next . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
| 14 | Sometimes she went with him , but found it hard to keep up . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Because they had been confused and upset early on in the campaign they found it hard to relax and trust us . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I worked on and off on Tremayne 's book for the rest of the morning but found it hard to concentrate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I actually found it hard to make myself make a divot at first — it just seemed wrong . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 27 | ( This was very strange for me and I found it hard to talk about . |
| 28 | He found it hard to think , never mind talk ; all he could do was wait . |
| 29 | At first , I found it hard to credit such an error to my father . |
| 30 | She also had severe perceptual problems and found it hard to recognize the different parts of her body or to know where objects were in relation to herself . |