Example sentences of "[conj] find [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are not many harsher disappointments in county cricket than finding yourself on the outside looking in , as was the case with another Robinson — Phil — at the start of this season following his acrimonious departure from Yorkshire . |
| 2 | I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down . |
| 3 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 4 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 5 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 6 | I went on , confident of my compass , but becoming less so , and found myself in the middle of a disused airfield , among landing markers , gutted buildings and a wrecked radar scanner . |
| 7 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 8 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 9 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 10 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 11 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 12 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 13 | They turned a corner and found themselves outside the cone shaped building . |
| 14 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 15 | Me and Sam missed our way and found ourselves on the edge of Foxton Mire . |
| 16 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
| 17 | She opened a door , and found herself in the Bacon room . |
| 18 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 19 | But instead of peace and solitude and a chance to get her emotions under control , she opened the door and found herself in the middle of a nightmare . |
| 20 | His description was that ‘ it is easy to aim for the front room and find yourself in the kitchen ’ . |
| 21 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 22 | For any of you making the trip to Florida next year and finding yourselves on the Gulf Coast anywhere near St Pete 's beach , a visit to MULLIGAN 'S SUNSET GRILL must be included . |
| 23 | The bubbling notes of a female cuckoo rang out as , rounding a bend and finding ourselves with the sea again in view , we settled to picnic . |
| 24 | Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service . |
| 25 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |