Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 2 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 3 | Unfortunately apart from some of the movies mentioned above , she found herself stuck in the '40s with the unwelcome label of Queen of the B's , because of her frequent roles in Charlie Chan , Mr Moto and Falcon Quickies . |
| 4 | Sabine found herself travelling in the same direction , Rohan 's arm firmly round her shoulders . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Two rival regiments of the peacetime British Army found themselves quartered in the same town . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |