Example sentences of "find [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | About Feargal coming to find me at Rosslare ? |
| 2 | I found them at last . |
| 3 | He found them at Neath Abbey , and the king was taken to Renilworth Castle while Isabella and Mortimer proceeded to wreak their vengeance on his supporters . |
| 4 | Found them at my pet antiques dealer in Cannes . |
| 5 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 6 | Sundowner time found me at the Clachaig Inn ( JTR either went there or to the Temperance Hotel in Glencoe Village on the edge of Loch Leven ) after twenty-odd miles wandering and walking . |
| 7 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 8 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 9 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 10 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 11 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 12 | So for various reasons , we actually found ourselves at . |
| 13 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 14 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 15 | A staunch Tory , Shrewsbury was distressed to find himself at odds with some of his fellow Catholics over Ireland and deplored the support given to Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] |
| 16 | In pursuing these aims , de Gaulle continued to find himself at odds with the British and Americans . |
| 17 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 18 | One day he found himself at Market Harborough but with no idea where he was going . |
| 19 | Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare : |
| 20 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 21 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 22 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 23 | The facts of political geography are alone sufficient to suggest that there might be many occasions when the Duke of Aquitaine found himself at odds with the Taillefers and the Lusignans . |
| 24 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 25 | Three narrow and thoroughly encouraging defeats ( 1–0 , 5–0 , 9–0 ) kicked off the 55/56 season and raffle winner Sid Beamish found himself at the helm . |
| 26 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 27 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 28 | By instinct rather than design he found himself at Saint Winifred 's altar , and kneeled to approach her , his creaky knees settling gingerly on the lowest step of her elevated place . |
| 29 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 30 | 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 . |