Example sentences of "[coord] find [pn reflx] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 2 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 3 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 4 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 5 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 6 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 7 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 8 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 9 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 10 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 11 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 12 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 13 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | I have canvassed the views of my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities who is very European , and he assures me that people who live in the southern part of Spain were totally bemused to wake up one day and find themselves in an invented region called Andalusia with a different Government from than in Madrid . |
| 16 | To open a white painted door , its handle and finger plate of white porcelain rimmed in gold and painted with fat roses , and find herself in a low warm room where every surface was cushioned and padded , designed for comfort , was a revelation indeed . |
| 17 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 18 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |