Example sentences of "who found [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In particular , women who found themselves without a source of male economic support-widows , deserted wives and unmarried mothers — tended to end up drawing poor relief .
2 Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action .
3 Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities .
4 ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ .
5 Since previous to the revolution the majority of women had very low levels of education and , therefore , few opportunities open to them , the FMC embarked on an educational program and a rehabilitation scheme for the many women who found themselves in degrading and unrewarding situations .
6 Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end .
7 Hiram Powers is not only a major monograph on one of America 's most significant artists of the nineteenth century , but also a catalogue of more than 200 portraits of members of international society who found themselves in Florence from the 1840s until the 1860s .
8 I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed .
9 There was no additional help for students who found themselves in trouble in the summer .
10 THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently .
11 But it was n't just the disc dodgers who found themselves in trouble .
12 One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general .
13 One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely .
14 Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause .
15 For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry .
16 Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss …
17 It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin , who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family :
18 A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way .
19 His injuries were so severe his own father who found him near a railway footbridge at Didcot Parkway did n't recognise him .
20 Miss T. was then examined by the obstetrics registrar who found her to be in a distressed condition with respiratory pain and contractions .
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