Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] [adj] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
2 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
3 | He switched on his torch and found himself alone in the office . |
4 | She woke and found herself alone in the bed ; a door closed and she identified the sound . |
5 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
6 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
7 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
8 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |