Example sentences of "[conj] i found [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have just visited the Hilliard Society exhibition where I found your magazine . |
| 2 | or I found I preferred men instead . ’ |
| 3 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 4 | But although I found it impossible not to be moved by the vibes and hype of enthusiastic publicity people and charming sales teams , there is no getting away from the fact that it is going to be a very tough year , with too many major titles to be able to do justice to them all ; and I do n't see any real evidence of anyone pruning their lists . |
| 5 | And although I found it hard to understand that you did n't want to meet her again that evening , I accepted that she was possibly ‘ not your type ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ My spirits varied between depression , acceptance , and hope , ’ he said , ‘ although I found it easier not to think of my son , Antoine . ’ |
| 7 | Although I found it impossible to imagine such a conversation with Mrs Monro , I had no doubt that Lili was telling the truth , and whatever the psychological convolutions the facts were there . |
| 8 | I like the self- portrait by him at 21 , although I found it quite depressing , he was only 21 and it 's absolutely fabulous ! |
| 9 | This study might appear one sided with more detail about ‘ Anna Karenina ’ but I think it is inevitable and although I found it quite hard to compare such different styles , I enjoyed reading and studying both . |
| 10 | Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing . |
| 11 | ‘ 'T WAS on the Isle of Capreee that I found her … ’ |
| 12 | When I saw the pictures , I could n't deny that I found them arousing . |
| 13 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 14 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |
| 15 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 16 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 17 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 18 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 19 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 20 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 21 | I told the Minister that I found his allegations incredible . |
| 22 | And I have to admit that I found you delightful . |
| 23 | And I have to confess that I found you as delightful then as I had in Wexford , and was intending to find out where you were going , and pursue the acquaintanceship . |
| 24 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 25 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 26 | You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master . |
| 27 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 28 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |
| 29 | She was such a sweet-natured , generous girl — I had never before nor have I since met anyone so naturally , if indiscriminately , kind and loving — that I found it hard to deny her anything . |
| 30 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |