Example sentences of "[noun] find [pron] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 2 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 3 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 4 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 5 | Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain . |
| 6 | Almost without knowing how she had got there , Folly found herself on the other side of the double doors , pushing through a curtain of leaves that shrouded the entrance . |
| 7 | The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades . |
| 8 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 9 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |