Example sentences of "i find " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What if I find certain issues or situations difficult ? |
| 2 | Naw , if I find 't is a good day , I resalve to take a turn in the Park , and see the fine women ; so huddle on my clothes , and get dressed by one . |
| 3 | I know it 's silly but I find it hard to take them seriously and really concentrate and not be distracted by the local cat cleaning himself on a window ledge or some such thing . |
| 4 | I must confess I find being a complete freelance is a strain and I love the family feeling of a company . |
| 5 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 6 | When I think about it , he wrote , I find it difficult to remember why I ever embarked on it . |
| 7 | What I find extraordinary is how each tree seems almost to suggest its own companion planting . |
| 8 | Happily , there has n't been any problem with the pernicious perennial weeds I find elsewhere in the garden , such as the deep-rooting bindweed and ground elder . |
| 9 | I find it a little horrifying to think that some Commercial pilots flying large numbers of passengers may have had very little exposure to reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 10 | However , I find Turner 's work on the results of such movement into the liminal state to be a very useful way of interpreting what an insider experiences when he moves to the margins of his own domain , and I suspect that many such transformations across fiercely defended boundaries of cultural experience lend the individual the chance to stand aside and reflect on his subjective place in the order of things . |
| 11 | ‘ I find it hard to know what to say to people , ’ Colin said straightaway . |
| 12 | Then she added , — Sheila can put me up until I find a place . |
| 13 | Now that I am retired , I find I am spending more and more time on voluntary charity work , for which I am very happy to take part , and I am hoping to make a start on making small wooden articles including picture and plate frames . |
| 14 | Consequently I find myself spending a lot of time looking at chairs in museums , shops , exhibitions and other peoples ' houses . |
| 15 | I find the webbing straps and lever locks used to hold my boat to its trailer make excellent cramps . |
| 16 | It may well be there is nothing wrong with hops in this form except that I find that brewers who use them , such as Whitbread and Charles Wells , produce beers with a bitterness that is a shade too harsh for my liking . |
| 17 | This is precisely what has happened at Malham ( and though I find it visually offensive I still climb there , as do hundreds of others ) . |
| 18 | I find it hard to accept . |
| 19 | They are both fit and active but I find it very difficult to keep their weight up . |
| 20 | ‘ I find it strange looking at you all , ’ says Marya Lebyadkin , the crazed visionary cripple , the fool-in-Christ ( yurodivaya ) , in a touchstone meditation ; ‘ I do n't understand how it is people are bored . ’ |
| 21 | Believing that the recent emergence of theory in literary education is a symptom of disorder , I find the contradictions as symptomatic as the coherences . |
| 22 | Though neither a Marxist nor a Freudian , I find Marxist criticism deeply interesting , but not the Freudian equivalent . |
| 23 | This is a phenomenon which I find impressive and mysterious . |
| 24 | Sir : While tending to agree with the Archbishop of Canterbury 's social critique as reported in your paper ( 'Runcie attack on ‘ Pharisees ’ revives rift with Tories ' , 2 October ) , I find his reference to the Pharisees more than a little unfortunate . |
| 25 | ‘ I find it difficult to justify enormous punitive damages being paid to victims on a first-past-the-post system . |
| 26 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
| 27 | Some say the escalators are controlled by the cones which march up and down the M1 , but I find this fanciful . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've read it , I find , ’ says Miss Harriot Anderson ; ‘ Pray , sir , is it anything like Sir Charles Grandison ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But I find that Algoflash reaches places even the lager could n't ’ |
| 30 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |