Example sentences of "find it hard [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 2 | She was elected Labour MP for Sunderland in 1929 , but , like many other women parliamentarians of the period , found it hard to break in to the House of Commons debates . |
| 3 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 4 | Owen found it hard to keep up with him . |
| 5 | James Woods finds it hard to hang on to his sanity in this comic role |
| 6 | But , the odd unscripted upset aside , the chairmen and chairwomen find it hard to keep up with torrential voting in favour of the leadership line . |
| 7 | Her inner caution was warning her against this feeling , but was finding it hard to get through to her . |
| 8 | I was trying to teach him French , as he was finding it hard to keep up with the stream of orders and commands being issued by the staff . |
| 9 | It 's very hard , I am finding it hard to keep up with them at the moment . |
| 10 | As trade in services soars , taxmen will find it harder to keep up with clever finance directors . |
| 11 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 12 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |