Example sentences of "and 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 . |