Example sentences of "[coord] find himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 2 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 3 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 4 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 5 | He got into Cadogan 's early , and found himself with two empty hours in which to get on with his work before anyone else showed up . |
| 6 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 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 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 9 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 12 | How far this development in Pissarro 's art depended upon the example of Monet is uncertain but it can be remembered that , after initial scepticism , he commented favourably upon the ‘ Haystacks ’ series and found himself in Rouen in the spring of 1896 , several months after Monet 's canvases of the Cathedral had been exhibited at Durand-Ruel 's gallery . |
| 13 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 14 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 15 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 16 | Greg pushed the door and found himself in what must have been the largest room in the cottage . |
| 17 | In general meetings the Director attracted all problems to himself and found himself in difficulties . |
| 18 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 19 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 20 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 21 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 22 | Jekyll lived in fear of waking up and finding himself in Hyde 's body , with all Hyde 's evil passions . |
| 23 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 24 | Bonhoeffer returned to Germany , but found himself in conflict with the mood of the times when identified with Hitler 's arrogance and brutality . |
| 25 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |