Example sentences of "found [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure of Robert Duvall was holding a briefcase ; he glanced inside but found nothing but a sheet of blank paper . |
| 2 | When the Sheriff and his men approached the brothers at Winchelsea , they found them in a state of drunken revelry . |
| 3 | ‘ I found them in a book and I took them . |
| 4 | He found them in a mess of vomit . |
| 5 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 6 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 7 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 8 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |
| 9 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 10 | But to start our adventure story at the beginning … long before we visited Bali , we escaped the ashram walls of Subud in Java , raised some money to make our first film , and found ourselves amongst a tribe who literally believe their ancestors descended from the stars in skyships . |
| 11 | Some way along the journey , we inexplicably found ourselves in a Tesco car park in Derby . |
| 12 | We again found ourselves in a situation where we had to descend because of icing . |
| 13 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 14 | We found ourselves in a wide desert street , lined unevenly with flat adobe buildings , the same dun colour as the street and the surrounding desert . |
| 15 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 16 | We found ourselves in a hall where a masked ball was in progress . |
| 17 | Suddenly at St Aubyn 's we found ourselves in a crowd of seventy boys , nearly all older . |
| 18 | But not this year , but because we found ourselves in a very embarrassing situation with the forty point limit and the fact that we 've got Hans Nielson on ten point three two which you know , is good in one respect , but it erm makes very difficult situations down the bottom end . |
| 19 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 20 | Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start . |
| 21 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 22 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 23 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 24 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 25 | Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee . |
| 26 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 27 | At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop . |
| 28 | 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 … |
| 29 | Pollock found himself as a painter during the 1940s . |
| 30 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |