Example sentences of "[adv] find [pn reflx] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 2 | They eventually found themselves in a huge square where a white marble fountain played in the centre . |
| 3 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 4 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 5 | THE story goes that many centuries ago some fishermen in the South China Sea were driven north by a typhoon , but were fortunate enough to find themselves in a splendid natural harbour protected by a large island . |
| 6 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 7 | Most dogs come from warm , dry , quiet houses and to suddenly find themselves in a noisy , cold , wet concrete kennels is unkind . |
| 8 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |
| 9 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 10 | Kim soon found herself in a tiny tenement flat . |
| 11 | Rural tenants — principally farm workers — meanwhile found themselves in a vicious circle of deprivation . |
| 12 | The United States thus finds itself in a no-win situation : the more it is seen to be intervening against him , the more it is likely to reinforce his position . |
| 13 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 14 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 15 | The refugee organisations now found themselves in a difficult position . |
| 16 | Concern was also expressed about the lack of rights for trainees — they often find themselves in a vulnerable situation . |
| 17 | Neither would a sovereign state 's government necessarily want to oppose transnational corporations , for the former often find themselves in the unenviable position of needing the latter more than the latter need them . |
| 18 | Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) . |
| 19 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 20 | Being expensive to maintain and run , they have been sold off and the incumbent now often finds himself in a small modern house , undoubtedly warmer and more convenient , but usually without character and , tellingly , without social status . |
| 21 | He has an unusually high belief in , and loyalty to , the group , but often finds himself in a hopeless tug-of-war . |
| 22 | With the changes in the political environment and the climate globally and continentally , some companies which have grown and built their considerable business on the production of arms now find themselves in a changed situation ; many have moved very rapidly to the formulation of new products and services quite distinct from their original product base . |
| 23 | It is perhaps significant that the last strike organized by the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers was in 1923 and nearly bankrupted the Union ; although , having amalgamated with the Transport and General Workers ' Union in 1982 , farm workers may now find themselves in a better bargaining position . |
| 24 | And the Northern Ireland International surprisingly finding himself in the clear twice already in the first five minutes , although that was er obviously not a chance . |
| 25 | Okay , hang on , on finding yourself in a wrong lane at a junction , Dan Dan |
| 26 | It got to the stage where we thought we were going to have to pull the idea of actually demonstrating skiing , but I follow if you 're writing about skiing , you at least had to show the difficulty of putting the boots on , and putting the skis on and side-stepping up the hill , and then finding yourself in a snow-plough position , and then turning around . |
| 27 | To my personal embarrassment to the extent that I was a party to the majority of the decisions to which I have referred , I have to say that I think that this court again finds itself in the same position . |
| 28 | Without rigorous financial controls , a haulier will never find himself in the happy position of considering a real expansion of his business . |