Example sentences of "[adv] find [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choosing a left turn , she soon found herself facing a blank door which might , for all she knew , lead to the cuttings library . |
| 2 | The government soon found itself taking an ambivalent stance towards the waiguoren ( foreigners ) . |
| 3 | Visitors to Hannover soon find themselves crossing a painted red line meandering across pavements and squares . |
| 4 | The humiliating financial dependence on his parents , a fact of life ever since he had been dismissed from Goupil 's , was being gradually shifted on to Theo , who would soon find himself shouldering the whole burden . |
| 5 | I also found myself facing an astonished mandroid guard , who began to reach for his holstered stun-gun . |
| 6 | He had Letty and now found himself dreading a new face to love . |
| 7 | We now find ourselves confronting a massive pay-back . |
| 8 | We have even found ourselves teaching a little bit of linguistics , since some of the comrades seemed interested . |
| 9 | Do not deflect the opponent so that his open side faces you or you may well find yourself facing a powerful reverse punch fuelled by the fall forward . |
| 10 | Today 's new mother may well find herself facing the additional difficulty of coping alone with her new-born infant — whether due to choice or circumstance . |
| 11 | Russian tanks were called out against striking East Germans and then against the ‘ defiance of Poland ’ in 1956 , when the Russian divisions marching on Warsaw almost found themselves fighting the Polish army and the armed workers of the capital . |
| 12 | This was obviously so in organisations which were expanding and which , as consequence , either found themselves exceeding the agreed limits on the size of their temporary labour forces or felt confident of being able to make commitments to a greater number of workers . |
| 13 | This is not so much because John Hart , the Malvern College schoolmaster , and his nine colleagues would have otherwise found themselves paying a hefty tax bill on the concessionary school places given to their sons eight years ago ; nor is it so much because of the thousands of other employees who would also have faced tax bills for other concessionary benefits . |
| 14 | For Shumiatski the famous scene in Modern Times in which Chaplin accidentally finds himself leading a Socialist demonstration showed the comedian remaining ‘ true to himself ’ for ‘ he is lonely — his path has nothing in common with the path of the masses — it is the path of the external failure ’ . |