Example sentences of "have find himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is apparent that Ackroyd has found himself in this manner — through exposure to Wilde , Eliot , and now Chatterton . |
| 2 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 3 | By the time I 've got up there and slithered through the cut-through , Casey has found himself in a fight . |
| 4 | A MUSICIAN who wrote a unique series of music books for physically disabled people has found himself in their shoes after suffering a stroke . |
| 5 | I am rather surprised that Martin Frears has found himself in this predicament . |
| 6 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 7 | In fact Patrickson , under such circumstances , could have found himself at variance with the old Company of Mines Royal which still had the powers vested in it and doubtless to his mortification be forced to give up his work or pay a Royalty — not however , to Muncaster estates . |
| 8 | His reaction was so wild that he would have found himself in even deeper trouble if he had connected with Simpson . |
| 9 | Had that proposal been acted on , McKusick , CSRG senior programmer and past president of Usenix , would have found himself in another conflict of interests since he is believed to be a secret a director of BSDI . |
| 10 | He was in uniform , very much in the situation in which Lewis had found himself as an undergraduate at Univ . |
| 11 | I had not doubt that this Ichaelan free-lance , probably some spindly droop with acne and myopia , had found himself on a world where nothing but good old genetics had spawned a race of tall , handsome , muscular people . |
| 12 | After his long , slow climb Stoneley had found himself to be a novice at office in-fighting , some examples of which could make the brutal intentions of a common criminal seem almost harmless . |
| 13 | The laird who sought the politician 's aid had found himself in an embarrassing predicament when a brother had unexpectedly returned to the family estate after many years spent at sea . |
| 14 | After the The Lancaster House agreement , Mike had found himself in a similar position to the rest of the Rhodesian Army — overqualified , over-trained , and unemployed . |
| 15 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 16 | At school he had been enthusiastic but undistinguished , and after it he had found himself in a polytechnic in the Midlands , in the state of paralysis of the imagination that tends to grip adolescents when the time for choosing a career looms . |