Example sentences of "find themselves [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried .
2 Once at the top of the rise , they found themselves on a flat plateau , of which most of the park area consisted
3 The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades .
4 Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action .
5 Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain .
6 Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities .
7 Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " .
8 The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . )
9 Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) .
10 The family found themselves with a gutted ruin and one surviving wing .
11 So , as the 71/72 season dawned , Athletico found themselves with a new team , a new league and a bright future .
12 One was that , arising from the transfer of lands from one allegiance to the other , many found themselves under a new lord ; and some did not like it .
13 They found themselves in a cavernous room lined with scarred wooden workbenches and rows of metal hooks hanging from the ceiling .
14 Rural tenants — principally farm workers — meanwhile found themselves in a vicious circle of deprivation .
15 The 34027 Locomotive Group found themselves in a similar position with a well-loaded train being cancelled within sight of the locomotive being prepared , so to speak .
16 In Algeria , they found themselves in a similar situation , fighting a war against the regular Algerian Army and the guerrillas of the Front Libération Nationale .
17 They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area .
18 The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power .
19 The refugee organisations now found themselves in a difficult position .
20 A FAMILY hooked on the ‘ whodunnit ’ board-game Cluedo found themselves in a real-life murder mystery yesterday … after stumbling across a skeleton .
21 They eventually found themselves in a huge square where a white marble fountain played in the centre .
22 As they drove towards their refuge , they found themselves in a large station yard , now overgrown with weeds and bramble bushes and obviously derelict .
23 ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone .
24 And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived .
25 Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives .
26 When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic .
27 Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end .
28 In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times .
29 Many refugees found themselves in the same position .
30 Emerging at the station in the City ( with fifteen minutes in hand , Helen noted to her relief ) they found themselves in an alien landscape .
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