Example sentences of "find themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIREMEN called to a chimney blaze found themselves at boss Jeffrey Ord 's home at Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 2 | Moreover , if the person found themselves on income support when old , the calculations for income support would assume they were receiving their full old-age pension . |
| 3 | It is n't that difficult then to imagine how Johanna 's parents found themselves on Christmas Eve in the position they did — unsure whether their daughter was with her friends or in terrible danger . |
| 4 | The Christians found themselves under attack not only from the Roman government but also from Greek philosophers and representatives of high literary culture , orators , historians ( but not natural scientists ) . |
| 5 | The Social Democrats found themselves without influence inside a hard-line Stalinist party . |
| 6 | The limits on cash withdrawals were so strict that many companies found themselves without cash even to pay wages . |
| 7 | Members who had been earlier supporters of television were confirmed in their views ; those who had been uncertain found themselves in favour ; several original opponents became supporters . |
| 8 | Lord Mountbatten first swam into my ken in 1940 when his destroyer , the Kelly and mine , the Tartar , found themselves in company with the fleet the day after the German invasion of Norway ; and from then on , throughout the war and after , I viewed his various exploits with admiration . |
| 9 | IT was one of several ‘ underground ’ magazines which found themselves in court in this period . |
| 10 | Those who in peacetime seemed brave or merely quaint for believing in all those old doctrines found themselves in wartime much in demand , some as evangelists , some as prophets , some as teachers . |
| 11 | Suddenly , in July 1945 , with the successful testing of the atomic bomb , the Allied found themselves in possession of the means to cut short the war . |
| 12 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 13 | But when in the early summer the Palestinians appeared on the slopes of Mount Sannine and the Christians found themselves in danger of total defeat , a Syrian military intervention in Lebanon became certain . |
| 14 | With the cumulative debt arising from this amounting to nearly 20 billion dollars by 1982 , the Yugoslavs found themselves in danger of default on debt service . |
| 15 | There was no additional help for students who found themselves in trouble in the summer . |
| 16 | But it was n't just the disc dodgers who found themselves in trouble . |
| 17 | Anyone who sought to translate their feelings into political activity soon found themselves in jail . |
| 18 | Thus from the beginning the community in Donegal found themselves in opposition to state policy when they raised questions over the implications of uranium prospecting and mining . |
| 19 | They also found themselves in opposition to certain local commercial interests as a fair number of shares in the mining company had been sold to people in the area , and thus certain local people had a vested interest in mining going ahead . |
| 20 | With the death of Olybrius and the appointment of Julius Nepos the Burgundians under Chilperic found themselves in opposition to the emperor ; presumably they withdrew from any involvement in the defence of the Auvergne . |
| 21 | Some women went to work in insurance offices , again probably as clerks , a few found themselves in railway offices , and one worked in the offices of the Scotsman . |
| 22 | Suddenly Tring found themselves in front , with City committed to attack , Tring suddenly broke down the right and Danny Glass saw his strike-on goal pushed away by Taylor , but only into the path of Danny Rook following up , who put home after sixty five minutes . |
| 23 | And , as already mentioned , their dawn was bedeviled with controversy so that the leaders as well as sympathetic hearing people found themselves in dispute about the best methods of helping and educating them . |
| 24 | In the summer of 1529 , during an outbreak of the plague in southern England , three men who had been students together at Cambridge found themselves by chance staying in the same house in Waltham . |
| 25 | Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries . |
| 26 | Sociobiologists are liable to find themselves in confrontation with the cultural and social anthropologists because they are specially concerned with interactions ( especially mating behaviour ) between individual animals which are closely related biologically . |
| 27 | It is relatively rare for accountants to find themselves in trouble , whether legal or ethical , because work they have done has been misinterpreted or misunderstood . |
| 28 | Also , as owning firms have expanded they have diversified and have found themselves in competition with their consortium offspring . |
| 29 | Plenty of guys in this racket have found themselves in front of a jury for a lot less than picking a dame up off the floor . |
| 30 | The Old Testament prophets were devastatingly political and frequently found themselves in trouble for it . |