Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] difficult [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak . |
| 2 | Within minutes her eyes were watering , she was sweating profusely and she began to find it difficult to breathe and speak |
| 3 | The Chinese seem to find it difficult to believe that foreigners have arm- and leg-muscles the same as themselves ! |
| 4 | The Conservatives also were to find it difficult to forget that he was not from their side , but a Labour appointee with clear and continuing sympathies for the trade unions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Why she had tacked that last bit on , Leith found it difficult to know as she made her way to the car park . |
| 7 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 8 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 9 | I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst . |
| 10 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In practice , however , the commissioner found it difficult to operate because of non-cooperation by the council : the use of default powers may be clear in statute but implementation can be more problematic . |
| 13 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 14 | Incontinence may be caused by disease or infection , or because a person finds it difficult to reach or use a toilet . |
| 15 | Antonietta , my new friend , finds it difficult to understand that I enjoy living alone as I do , in a strange city . |
| 16 | ONE still finds it difficult to believe that the International Rugby Football Board will abandon any of the experimental variations in the laws before the Lions ' forthcoming tour . |
| 17 | Former lorry driver Leonard Marder finds it difficult to walk because of an infected leg caused by varicose veins . |
| 18 | They had found it difficult to part but , as things were getting desperate , they turned to magic and said ‘ Abracadabra , one , two , three , say the magic words and now we 're free ’ . |
| 19 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , but my tongue runs away with me and I find it difficult to realize that Matt is dead . ’ |
| 21 | Provided the relaxation of the previous exclusionary rule is so limited , I find it difficult to suppose that the additional cost of litigation or any other ground of objection can justify the court continuing to wear blinkers which , in such a case as this , conceal the vital clue to the intended meaning of an enactment . |
| 22 | I find it I find I must say I find it difficult to understand why you find it difficult to understand that they they chose that particular route . |
| 23 | Regulators find it difficult to ensure that the regulated really do produce on the lowest possible cost curve . |
| 24 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 25 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |
| 26 | I find it difficult to believe that a male Oscar would let a female spawn on her own — unless she was so much larger than him that he dare not go near . |
| 27 | I find it difficult to believe that intervention is of necessity harmful . |
| 28 | I find it difficult to believe that we can improve on trying to establish competitive markets within the framework of a rule of law . |
| 29 | Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher . |
| 30 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |