Example sentences of "[vb past] it difficult [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |
| 2 | What his co-religionists sometimes found it difficult to put up with , however , was his abrasive personality and haranguing manner , a combination which ensured fiery exchanges and injured feelings in the frequent communal meetings . |
| 3 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 4 | He found it difficult to get on with people but he was n't a bad man . ’ |
| 5 | American elite theorists especially proclaimed their commitment to a positivist method , but found it difficult to follow through with appropriate empirical accounts of the exercise of power ( Lasswell , 1936 ; Lasswell and Kaplan , 1950 ; Hunter , 1953 ; Mills , 1956 ; Domhoff , 1976 ) . |
| 6 | The ride itself was very open and exposed and after being so long in the close embrace of the trees Marian found it difficult to step out into the clear daylight . |
| 7 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |