Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He side-slipped to miss three tightly spiralling planes , and found himself drifting into another cluster . |
| 2 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 3 | McLeish found himself shocked by this piece of feminine sharpness and must have registered something because his sergeant blushed . |
| 4 | Although it appears that she reached a peace with her father , she found herself constrained within that relationship ; she portrays several fathers who are sympathetic , and one especially who is repugnant . |
| 5 | Soviet allies sometimes found themselves opposed to each other ( such as the Ba'athist governments of Syria and Iraq , or Ethiopia and Somalia ) , and others entered into agreements with Soviet adversaries ( both Angola and Mozambique , for instance , signed non-aggression agreements with South Africa in 1984 , and Soviet clients generally found it difficult to resist the powerful influence of Western governments and corporations , or in the case of Ethiopia , relief agencies ) . |