Example sentences of "[adv] find himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 2 | Wyllie suddenly found himself without Brewer 's expertise , and Wyllis was incandescent with rage when a medical panel ruled Brewer out of the World Cup campaign . |
| 3 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 4 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 5 | Schmidt suddenly found himself in the space between them , his hand outstretched for the lock . |
| 6 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 7 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 8 | A stockbroker looking at Vermeer 's ‘ Portrait of a Young Woman at the Met ’ suddenly finds himself alongside another woman whose face resembles the painting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 11 | Haslam soon found himself in a position of having to make entrepreneurial decisions of staggering proportions . |
| 12 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
| 13 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |
| 14 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 15 | Separated from his tutor , Charles nevertheless found himself in a fairly congenial environment : Markward was a noted scholar , and Prüm 's library was well-stocked . |
| 16 | His unit is stationed near the Cambodian border , and Chris soon finds himself on a night patrol in the jungle . |
| 17 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 18 | Elected by the STV an MP would soon find himself under the same necessity as his Irish counterpart to maximize his local popularity at all costs . |
| 19 | There was no-one in reception , but if a stranger entered , he would soon find himself in the company of a gentleman in a blue suit with a friendly smile on his face and a bulge under his coat . |
| 20 | An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term . |
| 21 | He had made this clause to ensure Jamie did not find himself in Charles 's power as he grew up . |
| 22 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 23 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 24 | Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse . |
| 25 | This lorry would quickly find himself with a police escort . |
| 26 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |
| 27 | If the young aspirant survives all the obstacles and makes a start in practice he may still find himself with serious financial problems . |
| 28 | J. was blown off his bicycle by the force of one explosion , while cycling from one aircraft to another , and woke up to find himself in hospital with concussion . |
| 29 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 30 | Hoomey , having learnt to steer his bus at a steady canter round the railway cinder track and clear two foot of sleepers on each circuit , now found himself with quarter of a mile of galloping grass and a hedgerow at the end of it reinforced with a telegraph pole . |