Example sentences of "i find [pron] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him a most agreeable man and we seemed to get along well from the start . |
| 2 | I found him a most agreeable man , a sharp observer , and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order . |
| 3 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 4 | I found him a somewhat erratic personality and an occasional pain in the ass . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Whatever her failings may or may not be , I found her a most agreeable and willing chambermaid — very attractive for that occupation — far more attractive than the common run of girls , did n't you find ? ’ |
| 6 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 7 | And I found it a little strange they were suggesting that an alternative approach may be suitable here , particularly when th the evidence has n't been put forw or gone through the public consultation process . |
| 8 | Whether Hardy 's slightly impulsive way with phrasing is quite what this music demands ( all three works are in their different ways Classical in behaviour ) will be a matter of personal taste , but , given the highly personalised response , I found it a most pleasingly seductive recital . |
| 9 | I found it a rather disgusting product of a self-admitted drug damaged brain . |
| 10 | They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure . |
| 11 | I found it a very compassionate account of the unrewarding role filled by many in today 's ever-divorcing society . |
| 12 | I have played my part in defending the role of banks and the necessary role that they have , but I find myself a little outflanked by the new enthusiasm . |
| 13 | Between ourselves , I find them a little too deterministic for my taste . |
| 14 | William Empson has commented , " I find it a completely achieved poem ; probably Coleridge was lying when he told the story of the person from Porlock , nearly twenty years later … " |
| 15 | I find it a rather jagged composition , certainly devoid of the warmth and innocence of ‘ Hatful Of Hollow ’ . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
| 18 | I find it a little difficult to take that kind of question from an hon. Gentleman who said that we ought to eat New Zealand apples and refuse to eat British sausages . |
| 19 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 20 | I find it a more natural environment . |
| 21 | Personally I choose to travel by train , and am prepared to pay a higher fare to do so , because I find it a more comfortable , and usually more enjoyable mode of travel . |
| 22 | I find it a very useful thing , and I am as bad as the next person at chatting merrily away with little thought of time or the expense of it . |
| 23 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
| 24 | Sleepily Adam whispered , ‘ I find it an extraordinarily erotic idea . ’ |