Example sentences of "find [pers pn] [adv] [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 2 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 3 | I found it supremely restful to talk to her , and when we finally parted I told her I hoped we might see each other again some time . |
| 4 | Muss-juss-gair-nah-dring : I find you too boring to talk to . |
| 5 | ‘ I just find her so difficult to talk to . |
| 6 | It must now face the imperial impotence that Britain has found it so difficult to adapt to . |
| 7 | There is a choir which produces things — various medieval and erm renaissance and eighteenth century anthems and so on , and they do a Christmas carol service and so on — and it 's really quite I find it quite nice to come to , because it does n't have the sort of narrow denominationalism that many of the local churches have . |
| 8 | There 's a choir which produces , sings various mediaeval and erm Renaissance and eighteenth century anthems and so on , and they do a Christmas Carol Service and so on , and it 's really quite , I find it quite nice to come to , because it does n't have the sort of narrow denominationalism that many of the local churches have . |
| 9 | Schools find it quite easy to adapt to this kind of grouping where they are dealing with ‘ marginal ’ subjects like music theory . |
| 10 | They naturally find it much easier to take to an in-law of the opposite sex . |
| 11 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 12 | The presbyterie after dealing with her and finding her grossly ignorant recommends to Mr David Simpson her minister to instruct her privately and afterwards to rebuke her publickly . |
| 13 | The presbyterie after dealing with her and finding her grossly ignorant recommends to Mr David Simpson her minister to instruct her privately and afterwards to rebuke her publickly . |
| 14 | The truth is that I 'm finding it damnably hard to confess to you what happened between Lotta and myself , and it 's vital that you know . ’ |
| 15 | Spokeswoman Margaret Rooke-Matthews said : ‘ People are finding it too expensive to go to the pub . |
| 16 | Postcards are labour-intensive , difficult to maintain and staff may find them intensely irritating to serve to customers , but to be able to generate over 20% of total sales from less than 10% of floor space , gives a turnover per square foot that most of us can only dream of . |
| 17 | Old , compressed cultures such as this can be notably cohesive and resilient , but they can find it increasingly difficult to adapt to radical , as distinct from incremental , changes . |
| 18 | Why do I find it so hard to stick to ? |
| 19 | Maybe they do n't find it hard to , they do n't find it very easy to talk to each other about difficult things ; maybe they ca n't say the sort of things ‘ I love you but , I wish you did n't , such and such ’ . |