Example sentences of "[adv] find [pn reflx] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 2 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Without rigorous financial controls , a haulier will never find himself in the happy position of considering a real expansion of his business . |