Example sentences of "[noun] found [pn reflx] on " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach .
2 So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel !
3 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 .
4 It is n't that difficult then to imagine how Johanna 's parents found themselves on Christmas Eve in the position they did — unsure whether their daughter was with her friends or in terrible danger .
5 Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group .
6 Ruth found herself on her knees , sand rasping between her fingers .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation .
10 We must now turn our attention to the wider situation in which 5 Corps found itself on 10–12 May .
11 Hiding at ninth on the bill , beneath stars like Wet Wet Wet and The Christians , the band found themselves on a remake of The Beatles ' ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ , called , with a high degree of originality , ‘ Sergeant Pepper Knew My Father ’ .
12 Denmark is their other northern commitment , and it is there that 2 RRP found itself on 30 June 1989 .
13 In 1653 John Lilburne found himself on trial a second time .
14 Moreover , if the person found themselves on income support when old , the calculations for income support would assume they were receiving their full old-age pension .
15 McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed .
16 ENGLAND manager Geoff Cooke , horrified by violence that marred what should have been a gentle centenary celebration , read the riot act to the players after England 's new kids on the block found themselves on the rack at Leicester .
17 By the beginning of 1957 Franco found himself on the horns of a dilemma : both change and immobilism implied a high degree of risk for his continuation in power .
18 Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain .
19 When the election was won , most handsomely , Pym found himself on the backbenches .
20 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 .
21 At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop .
22 One day Mark found himself on his knees in the chapel , eyes tight shut , praying , please God , let Sam put his cock in my mouth .
23 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 .
24 As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits .
25 Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A .
26 Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " .
27 Jacqui found herself on her knees with Kattina behind her .
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