Example sentences of "still found [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students at Cuddesdon still found him very odd , and very unpractical , and very absent-minded , and much given to muttering to himself . |
| 2 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 3 | Yet despite the antagonism that vibrated between them , Polly still found him profoundly attractive . |
| 4 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 8 | She still found it hard to believe that any British ship could be in danger so near to home ; even when Jock had explained that unless a submarine was in water deep enough in which to dive , an escort was essential . |
| 9 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 10 | Mme Guérigny , whilst relying on her son , still found it distasteful that he was managing to survive in the face of the family tragedy . |
| 11 | She still found it hard to believe the Doctor 's explanation . |
| 12 | Even with structured A4 records , computerised recall and repeat prescribing , and a relatively vigilant team , we still found it difficult to ensure that women who had stopped the pill because of a rise in pressure did not resume it , even when they and practice staff were apparently aware of the risk . |
| 13 | The same thought had crossed Dalziel 's mind much earlier , but he still found it hard to believe . |
| 14 | Part of him still found it difficult to forget what he had done to Georgina Newley . |
| 15 | He still found it difficult to accept that Tess , the pure village maiden , was not what she seemed . |
| 16 | Mary-Claude still found it difficult to match the popular image of America with her experience of it . |
| 17 | No matter how certain he might be immediately before he closed his eyes that there was plenty of space in front of him , no matter how positive he was as he walked with eyes closed that he was n't veering off to one side and there was tarmac under his feet rather than grass , he still found it very hard , almost impossible , to walk more than about twenty paces with his eyes closed . |
| 18 | He was also formidable , demanding , difficult — and smouldering with anger , but she still found it impossible to tear her gaze away . |
| 19 | It annoyed her that , despite everything that had been said and done between them , and which obviously had meant absolutely nothing to him , since his attitude towards her was the same as it had ever been , she still found it difficult to control her emotions in his presence . |
| 20 | She still found it hard to believe that someone would go to all that trouble just for her . |
| 21 | He 'd never shortened her name , or been a demonstrative man , and she still found it almost impossible to guess what he was thinking . |
| 22 | Kate still found it hard to believe that this single-minded , dedicated , successful career man could be so uncertain of himself . |
| 23 | Sabine still found it astonishing that the family were n't making more use of the legend to promote their wine . |
| 24 | She still found it hard to assimilate the way her life had changed so drastically in the course of a mere few days . |
| 25 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 26 | Jane appreciated Doug 's perseverance but she still found it difficult to raise the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 27 | He still found it difficult to believe . |
| 28 | A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses . |
| 29 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 30 | Market research had shown that our customers still found it technically excellent , with good mechanical and flow properties . |