Example sentences of "find himself with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 2 | He got into Cadogan 's early , and found himself with two empty hours in which to get on with his work before anyone else showed up . |
| 3 | When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients . |
| 4 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 5 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 6 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 7 | If the young aspirant survives all the obstacles and makes a start in practice he may still find himself with serious financial problems . |