Example sentences of "[noun prp] found [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia , Germany found itself at war with its trade competitors in the west , and at war with its nationalist rivals and its potential empire in the east . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first attempt to penetrate the Latin American market was made in the early 1930s , when Moscow found itself with a surplus of oil in a world marketing network tightly controlled by the major multi-nationals . |
| 8 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 9 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 10 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 13 | So , as the 71/72 season dawned , Athletico found themselves with a new team , a new league and a bright future . |
| 14 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 15 | With the death of Olybrius and the appointment of Julius Nepos the Burgundians under Chilperic found themselves in opposition to the emperor ; presumably they withdrew from any involvement in the defence of the Auvergne . |
| 16 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 17 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 18 | Seconds later Talalayev found himself in another inviting position but this time sent the ball skywards and out of danger . |
| 19 | Ruth found herself on her knees , sand rasping between her fingers . |
| 20 | Ruth found herself in his arms , her face against his broad chest — as if she were a little girl again , in the time before she 'd known he was crazy . |
| 21 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 22 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 23 | Benny found herself in a rock-walled tunnel , with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling at regular intervals . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee . |
| 26 | Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare : |
| 27 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 28 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |