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

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1 He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy .
2 Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen .
3 It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord .
4 There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man .
5 Hazel reached the hedge , crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long , shadowy aisle between two rows of beans .
6 Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world .
7 Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box .
8 The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall .
9 MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours .
10 Chantal prised herself from D'Arcy 's grasp and found herself eagerly reaching for the receiver .
11 Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods .
12 Ianthe had gone into a kind of day dream and found herself wondering what John did in the evenings .
13 This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill .
14 Perfectly safe , until I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and found myself , the only female , in a street lined with male prostitutes .
15 Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other .
16 They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits .
17 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 .
18 At Newport Morrissey fell victim to innocent crowd over-enthusiasm and found himself dragged into the mob .
19 She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it .
20 It said : ‘ On my way to the courtyard this morning , I went into your gallery as a sanctuary and found myself surrounded by startling , horrific and disturbing images which yet had a positive and uplifting effect .
21 I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp .
22 She caught his eye and found herself smiling up at him .
23 We caught a local bus to the town and found ourselves seated among chickens , fish and women chewing beetle nut .
24 We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging .
25 His wife , who was never speechless in those days , entertained the painters , art critics and sculptors more successfully than her husband and found herself slipping into various love affairs which her Arnold , smiling quietly and getting on with his business and his collection , seemed to expect .
26 The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar .
27 My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe .
28 And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived .
29 He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary .
30 After Eton and a spell as a waiter in the United States , he fell in with the exotic Soho underworld of the day and found himself earning £500 a week , very good money in 1961 .
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