Example sentences of "[adv] to find [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 2 | THE story goes that many centuries ago some fishermen in the South China Sea were driven north by a typhoon , but were fortunate enough to find themselves in a splendid natural harbour protected by a large island . |
| 3 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 4 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 5 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 6 | We both know that if you were ever to find yourself in such an influential position , my sister 's inheritance would not long remain her own . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’ |