Example sentences of "finding [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better than finding them in a flap and fearing higher rates , as they were a week ago . |
| 2 | The bubbling notes of a female cuckoo rang out as , rounding a bend and finding ourselves with the sea again in view , we settled to picnic . |
| 3 | And this is where we are in danger of finding ourselves in a vicious circle : for industry one has got to have products and to get products one has got to have industry … |
| 4 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 5 | This means not taking on someone who is too highly qualified and would be easily bored or dissatisfied as much as finding someone with the ability to do the job . |
| 6 | They were also asked to write about ‘ John ’ finding himself at the top of his medical school . |
| 7 | Finding himself on the streets , Doisneau felt completely at liberty , and he has remained there ever since . |
| 8 | We are told the story of a man ( unidentified , so for convenience I shall refer to him as X ) who , though ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ had become interested in another younger man on the occasion of finding himself in a triangular relationship with him and his ( i.e. the younger man 's ) fiancée at a dinner party . |
| 9 | Finding himself in a minority of one in 1965 over the Commission 's package of proposals , De Gaulle either had to cede the day to the Community and hence accept the principle of majority voting , or block the effective working of the Community . |
| 10 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 11 | With his whining , nasal , urban voice , there are moments when he is the weedy boy at the summer camp or Woody Allen finding himself in the South American jungles in Bananas . |
| 12 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 13 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 14 | He had a fraction of a second to be surprised at finding himself in the middle of all this traffic , when up there , that was his road , up there , that 's where he should have been by now . |
| 15 | And the Northern Ireland International surprisingly finding himself in the clear twice already in the first five minutes , although that was er obviously not a chance . |
| 16 | An individual that escalates without assessment is in danger of finding itself in a fight with a much stronger individual . |
| 17 | President Chadli Benjedid , at a March 13 press conference , said that there was no question of dissolving parliament at present , but that this could be considered if a consensus were to emerge on the matter ; legislative elections were due in 1992 but could be brought forward if necessary , and Chadli accepted the possibility of the ruling National Liberation Front ( Front de libération nationale — FLN ) finding itself in a minority after such elections . |
| 18 | The chances of finding one with a positive clinical response rate of 20% or more is less than 1 in 40 000 . |
| 19 | She drifted pleasantly away , finding herself at the theatre with Kate Maybury , but she had black hair and carried a colander , and in the colander lay a tiny baby , but Mrs Maybury would n't let her see it , just told her to watch the show . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd better not waste any more time , ’ she added , pushing the door open and going through , finding herself at an entrance to the dock area that she had seen from Froebe 's office . |
| 21 | At the time Peter supposed she was either a connoisseur of funerals or a casual visitor who , finding herself in the middle of the funeral , had stayed because she was too embarrassed to leave . |
| 22 | One of the boarders was a clergyman , the Reverend Baron from Cheshire , and he , finding her at every turn with the Bible open , praised her devotion , which released from her such loud protestations of her unworthiness that he was stopped in his tracks . |
| 23 | Had he been so sure of finding her at the alehouse ? |
| 24 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 25 | I was particularly unconvinced by the scene where they go haring round the countryside in search of Josef Locke ( Ned Beatty ) and end up finding him in a pub . |
| 26 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
| 27 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 28 | The likelihood of finding it on a University reading list , or even in a University library , would be slight , though the books of Roberts 's lifelong friend George Gissing do have a place in the approved literary canon . |
| 29 | Almost operating on remote control he removed it , looked at it , and remembered finding it on the mat in that other house in that other life-time . |
| 30 | She missed two games before finding it behind a cushion , but then took only a few days to call house on number 52 in game 230 . |