Example sentences of "find themselves [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without warning , Weissman and his audience found themselves separated by no more than a cardboard partition from a noisy meeting of a local school maintenance workers ' union , voting not to end its strike . |
| 2 | Two rival regiments of the peacetime British Army found themselves quartered in the same town . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |