Example sentences of "finding [pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only he could talk to her now , Brian thought , get into her mind , instead of finding himself practically unable to make any kind of conversation at all . |
| 2 | The presbyterie after dealing with her and finding her grossly ignorant recommends to Mr David Simpson her minister to instruct her privately and afterwards to rebuke her publickly . |
| 3 | The presbyterie after dealing with her and finding her grossly ignorant recommends to Mr David Simpson her minister to instruct her privately and afterwards to rebuke her publickly . |
| 4 | Yet , while she was finding him most difficult to forget , the realisation only then struck her that she knew neither the name of the garage that housed her car , nor the place where it was situated ! |
| 5 | She was finding it increasingly difficult to sit here , in his home , trying to cope with the spectrum of emotions that chased pell-mell through her from one moment to the next , and at the same time evince a polite interest in Richard 's remarks . |
| 6 | Mrs Fellows had been finding it increasingly difficult to cope with her usual activities due to her aching legs and tiredness . |
| 7 | Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management . |
| 8 | All the men of the community who had to travel to the country every week to sell their goods — at least , any who did n't have his own means of transport — had for months been finding it increasingly difficult relying on the railways . |
| 9 | At the same time , the Association is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the requirements of all those who need our assistance . |
| 10 | This number is seen to be much higher in the later 1970s and in the 1980s , supporting the view that more and more school-leavers were then finding it increasingly difficult to obtain jobs in the first six months after leaving school . |
| 11 | She managed to hold down a job as a journalist with a local newspaper , but was finding it increasingly difficult to produce a reasonable standard of work when suffering from PMS , which was sometimes debilitating . |
| 12 | Lydia was finding it increasingly difficult to place Elizabeth . |
| 13 | Please do n't tell me to buy children 's shoes as I already do so when I need a flat pair , but I like high heels and am finding it increasingly difficult to buy them . |
| 14 | He criticised ‘ as a policy mess ’ the present position where so many would-be solicitors are prevented from obtaining discretionary awards from local authorities , are unable to enjoy preferential rates under the Government 's student loan scheme , and are finding it increasingly difficult to find places in already hard pressed high street firms who do legal aid work . |
| 15 | The third group comprised the Party activists and functionaries themselves , who were finding it increasingly difficult to recruit new willing Party workers at the same time that their own work-load was being considerably enlarged . |
| 16 | Maura was finding it increasingly difficult to swallow . |
| 17 | Others , less directly committed to change or worried as to how their institutions would cope with its demands , would , nevertheless , have been finding it increasingly difficult to regard school mathematics as fixed and unchangeable . [ … ] |
| 18 | By the late seventies and early eighties British players were finding it increasingly difficult to compete on the international scene . |
| 19 | ‘ Students are finding it increasingly difficult to get that experience . |
| 20 | Circumscribed by the injunction — voiced or not , that the machines built around it should not pose a threat to IBM Corp 's proprietary product lines , the designers of the Power RISC created a chip that was heavily slewed towards scientific and technical applications — but the IBM world has changed out of all recognition since then and the RS/6000 is at least as widely used in commercial applications as in technical , while IBM is finding it increasingly hard to sell proprietary systems . |
| 21 | This conversation was centring too much on bedrooms and pillows , and Ronni was finding it increasingly hard to handle . |
| 22 | And Michael Crawford , one of the Nice guys , is finding it unexpectedly hard to win . |
| 23 | She slumps back on the floor , still finding it nearly impossible to speak as every word that emerges takes on new lives and dimensions of its own . |
| 24 | But agencies are finding it profoundly difficult to reach a consensus . |
| 25 | The truth is that I 'm finding it damnably hard to confess to you what happened between Lotta and myself , and it 's vital that you know . ’ |
| 26 | However , it may take some considerable time to reach this target ; as the majority of DATEC courses are run in separate art colleges and these have been particularly squeezed by the current financial crisis , they are finding it particularly difficult to make the desired provision . |
| 27 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 28 | Spokeswoman Margaret Rooke-Matthews said : ‘ People are finding it too expensive to go to the pub . |
| 29 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 30 | He had taken this attitude himself , but was finding it very uncomfortable to maintain , after his long years of quiet in the bush , untroubled by anything worse than wind or weather . |