Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] find [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 2 | Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen . |
| 3 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 4 | One day he finds something in the bottom of his shower . |
| 5 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 6 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 7 | And yet , alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema : the transition from day to night ; the day for night of the viewing ; the transition back to daylight . |
| 8 | They put Dagon upright again , but the next morning they find him in an even sorrier state . |
| 9 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 10 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 11 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
| 12 | In the language of p. 27 the electron originally was not in an eigenstate of position but in some superposition of such states ; after the act of measurement it finds itself in an eigenstate of position corresponding to the eigenvalue which is the result of that particular measurement . |