Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i find it " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are angry , vulnerable , gentle , fierce , with such bewildering speed that I find it fascinating . |
| 2 | It 's one-party rule for the foreseeable future and I find it depressing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Everybody wanted a piece of my action and I found it very difficult to adjust . |
| 4 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
| 5 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 6 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 7 | As I knit the swatch , a ladder is created where the needles are out of work and I find it very easy to measure between the two ladders with my green ruler when the swatch is completed . |
| 8 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 9 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 10 | But I slip down a couple of back roads and I find it soon enough . |
| 11 | It 's a memory-hungry process and I found it worked best on machines with more than 4Mb of RAM . |
| 12 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 13 | It was an unusual job but I found it quite interesting . ’ |
| 14 | It was an unusual job but I found it quite interesting . |
| 15 | It is neither the ninety seven thousand , nine hundred and fifty seven pounds claim by Mr nor the forty seven thousand one hundred and eighty five pound figure contended for by Mr but I find it a fair figure for the cost of the plaintiff 's transport in the years ahead . |
| 16 | ‘ I prefer this means of transport because I find it consonant with a certain feeling I have about myself — because it expresses a certain style of being that I find congenial — because I find the kinaesthetic sensations it affords , even the physical efforts and nervous tension , somehow involving . ’ |
| 17 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 18 | During the war , when we were doing research on strong plastics , Professor Charles Gurney used to recite this little ditty to me nearly every day and I found it depressing because wood was in fact a better material for making aeroplanes than the plastics which we could then produce . |
| 19 | I am not a very social sort of person and I find it difficult to have strangers in my home . ’ |
| 20 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
| 21 | Nearly all rack effects have their connectors at the back and I find it looks very untidy having cables hanging all over the front of an amp . |
| 22 | The above is an exact quote from their letter to a national newspaper and I find it very interesting , as indeed will those involved in the case . |
| 23 | Did anybody leave that scarf behind last night because I found it on my chair . |
| 24 | Although hard to buy beyond specialist shops , kaffir lime leaf offers such a depth of flavour that I find it hard not to reach for it whenever I cook . |
| 25 | In actual fact my walking stick and gloves are ( I am almost too ashamed to admit ) an elaborate affectation which has by degrees grown into such a habit that I find it difficult , if not impossible , to lay them aside . |
| 26 | In my mind all land/open space in Edinburgh should be eligible for the Community Woodland Supplement and I find it difficult to consider a preferential strategic plan in such an urban environment . |
| 27 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 28 | ‘ I have known Alain all his life and I find it impossible to believe that he would commit suicide . |
| 29 | The black number you were wearing last night was still lying on the bathroom floor in a sodden heap when I found it this morning . ’ |
| 30 | I think there 's more to love than just simply romantic love erm , I 'm a volunteer campaigner with Oxfam and to me love includes love of my fellow man and fellow women throughout the world and I find it very hard at the moment that millions of people are starving in this world and I feel that I 've got to show my love by helping them |