Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel !
7 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 .
8 Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions .
9 So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian .
10 Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing …
11 Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group .
12 Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion .
13 Seconds later Talalayev found himself in another inviting position but this time sent the ball skywards and out of danger .
14 For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure .
15 Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position .
16 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 .
17 Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee .
18 Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare :
19 Cornelius found himself at a door .
20 Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold .
21 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 .
22 ‘ 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 — ’
23 Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch .
24 After they had been served , Rupert found himself under fire again .
25 RONAN Rafferty found himself with leeway to make up when the second round of the GA European Open began at East Sussex National today .
26 Last year , Amnesty mounted a huge campaign against human rights abuses in Morocco , and King Hassan found himself under increasing pressure to make some sort of response .
27 One evening in September Daniel found himself with nothing much to do after he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis .
28 In 1653 John Lilburne found himself on trial a second time .
29 In 1660 , Charles II was restored and Macleod found himself in prison , where he lay , without trial , for three years ; whilst his neighbour , Mackenzie of Seaforth , dismembered his estates .
30 When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients .
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