Example sentences of "find themselves [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even those men , such as Bert Cooke and John Douglas , who were later critical of ministers becoming professional politicians , found themselves acting in the political arena as they tried to explain to an increasingly interested audience why their spiritual leader was being sent to prison . |
| 2 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 3 | Two rival regiments of the peacetime British Army found themselves quartered in the same town . |
| 4 | Even with regard to this episode Margaret showed a sisterly loyalty : I am told that when she and Ivy found themselves staying at the same hotel as Cecilia Ady , Eleanor Jourdain 's chief opponent , ‘ there was a marked coldness ’ . |
| 5 | During fierce street fighting around the temple of Myrmidia , the warrior goddess of Estalia , a group of knights found themselves surrounded by the dreaded Black Guard led by Emir Wasr the Cruel . |
| 6 | This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group . |
| 7 | They found themselves sandwiched between the unhappy and unwilling Germans , and the aggressive , intolerant and uncomprehending Russians . |
| 8 | Yet growing numbers of boyar and state peasants found themselves subjected to the harsh rule of small landowners . |
| 9 | Rural councils have found themselves hamstrung by the centralized control of local authority expenditure ( particularly during the periods of economic stagnation and crisis ) and , in the case of housing , by the imposition of cost yardsticks which rarely take account of the peculiar difficulties which many rural councils face from the heavier costs incurred in housing provision in remote areas . |
| 10 | And should the current two vacancies within the Windsor firm find themselves listed at the local Job Centre it 's impossible to calculate how many of the nation 's three million unemployed might apply . |
| 11 | They simply find themselves categorised by the limp thinking of economic commentators . |
| 12 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 13 | HARTLEPOOL , Middlesbrough and Sunderland footballers all find themselves plodging in the Med off Majorca this week : there 's nowt so common for fourth division champions Burnley . |
| 14 | The minority who do find themselves embroiled in the criminal justice system are usually involved in petty crime such as shoplifting , casual theft , prostitution and minor public order offences rather than violent crime , and may become frequent offenders — magistrates complain that they see a procession of recidivist minor offenders in whom unemployment , poverty , poor intellect , long-standing emotional and social difficulties and a wide range of mental health problems are compounded . |
| 15 | If , however , they were unlucky enough to meet wet weather and the harvest extended itself over the stated month , then they might well find themselves working in the fifth week without drawing any extra money . |
| 16 | It may be an unpalatable thought , but we suspect that to an increasing degree throughout the 1990s brewers and conservationists will find themselves standing on the same side of the fence . |