Example sentences of "he found [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 2 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 3 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 4 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 5 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 6 | Soapy walked away from Broadway and soon he found himself on Sixth Avenue . |
| 7 | He found himself on loan to the faculty of the National Intelligence Academy ( NIA ) in Fort Lauderdale as director of Video Operations . |
| 8 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |