Example sentences of "[verb] find [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 2 | Her eyes spanned the room , once , twice , and seemed to find something threatening in the silence . |
| 3 | Bernice woke to find herself lying outside the temple . |
| 4 | Mr Shepherd appeared in my office with my son — said he 'd found him roaming about the factory . |
| 5 | I lit a cigarette as I waited and turned to find her leaning on the doorway , arms folded . |
| 6 | Benny , Ace and Petion arrived to find them milling around the door , testing it for electrification with a bayonet whose handle was securely wrapped with oilcloth . |
| 7 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 8 | I do not know whether the director of The Tallis Scholars was gratified to find himself presented in The New Yorker as an American stereotype of the classy Englishman with a dandyish dress sense , a love of cricket , a public school education leading to Oxford , and a colloquial idiom with a touch of P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 9 | He may have found him sleeping in the porch . |
| 10 | The minority who do find themselves embroiled in the criminal justice system are usually involved in petty crime such as shoplifting , casual theft , prostitution and minor public order offences rather than violent crime , and may become frequent offenders — magistrates complain that they see a procession of recidivist minor offenders in whom unemployment , poverty , poor intellect , long-standing emotional and social difficulties and a wide range of mental health problems are compounded . |
| 11 | Outside , a few brown chickens were trying to find something to eat in the garden . |
| 12 | He took out his wallet , hoping to find something hidden within the pigskin . |
| 13 | He had found himself looking into the infinitely complex growth of stem and grass and leaf and tendril and fine twig that covered the moor in a thick springy upholstery , but also beyond this , through and beside this , into clear darkness . |
| 14 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 15 | Mr Popple had found her lying on the bathroom floor upon returning from the Lamb and Flag . |
| 16 | from Spain , where he had found them growing in the wild . |
| 17 | As a Greek and Latin scholar he had found them described in the works of ancient authors who wrote about the moods , emotions and actions of all the actors involved in their dramas . |
| 18 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 19 | It is as if the speaker , in a state of semi-consciousness , was first aware of the stimulus , and then , an instant later , suddenly awoke to find himself confronted with the result provoked by this stimulus , without being conscious of the passage from one state to the other . |
| 20 | I once met a girl who awoke to find herself gripped by the Spirit of God at 2 a.m . |
| 21 | Rural councils have found themselves hamstrung by the centralized control of local authority expenditure ( particularly during the periods of economic stagnation and crisis ) and , in the case of housing , by the imposition of cost yardsticks which rarely take account of the peculiar difficulties which many rural councils face from the heavier costs incurred in housing provision in remote areas . |
| 22 | It 's not the first time punters , who bet £1.6billion a year just on the dogs , have found themselves cornered in the doghouse . |