Example sentences of "[noun] find himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 2 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 3 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 4 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 5 | This led to the murder of a shop owner and the next thing that happened , was , Imamu found himself in court on trial for a murder he had not committed . |
| 6 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 7 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 8 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 9 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 10 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 11 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 12 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 13 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 14 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 15 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 16 | Seconds later Talalayev found himself in another inviting position but this time sent the ball skywards and out of danger . |
| 17 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 18 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 19 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee . |
| 22 | Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare : |
| 23 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 24 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 25 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
| 26 | We are always sad when a young international athlete finds himself in this situation . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he began , ‘ Robert found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the symbolism in Coleridge 's dream poems — ’ |
| 28 | Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch . |
| 29 | After they had been served , Rupert found himself under fire again . |
| 30 | On 17 September , a Thursday , at about ten o'clock in the morning , the Collector found himself in conversation with the Padre . |