Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process . |
| 2 | ‘ Fired — dismissed , ’ she offered a couple of alternatives — only to find that he found her first offering of more interest . |
| 3 | She 'd been ashamed to find that she found it such exhausting work , especially without the broad shoulders of Ross to lean on . |
| 4 | Actively disliking him , she nevertheless realised that she found his company annoyingly … disturbing ? |
| 5 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 6 | In spite of her rage with him she admitted that she found him just about perfect to look at . |
| 7 | You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Wharton , who with a young boy discovered the bodies , says that she found it unlocked . ’ |
| 9 | Finally may I thank all those who supported the event which saw five main line steam locomotives operating over a preserved main line and hope that they found their visit enjoyable . |
| 10 | " I hope that you found our New Year ceremony of some interest . " |
| 11 | I hope that you find our proposal acceptable and look forward to the prospect of working closely with you on this project . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 14 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 15 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 16 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 17 | Was he implying that he found her desirable ? |
| 18 | And er she erm she said , I know what you wanted to say and I appreciate that you find it difficult to put it into words |
| 19 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 20 | We also have the comments of his tutor , Ian Duthie , on the piece , which shows that he found it curious , too . |
| 21 | Two-thirds of a random sample of 54 of those with tinnitus showed that they found it disturbing , 72 per cent experienced it continuously , 18.5 per cent frequently and only 9.25 per cent occasionally . |
| 22 | ‘ She indicated that she found him overbearing . |
| 23 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 24 | There are children so painfully shy that they find it difficult to voice publicly " Yes " or " No " . |
| 25 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 26 | And he must have known that she found his touch distasteful , yet did that stop him ? |
| 27 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 28 | That can only mean that he found it , on the balance of probabilities , to have had a causative effect . |
| 29 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |