Example sentences of "and found [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 2 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 3 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 4 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 5 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 6 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 7 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 8 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 9 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 10 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 11 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 14 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 15 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 16 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 17 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |