Example sentences of "and find [pn reflx] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I slipped past the dozing duo , and found myself in a labyrinth of corridors . |
| 2 | I went on , confident of my compass , but becoming less so , and found myself in the middle of a disused airfield , among landing markers , gutted buildings and a wrecked radar scanner . |
| 3 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 4 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 5 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 6 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 7 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 8 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 9 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 10 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 11 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 12 | … and found herself in a part of the house she had never seen before . |
| 13 | She opened a door , and found herself in the Bacon room . |
| 14 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 15 | But instead of peace and solitude and a chance to get her emotions under control , she opened the door and found herself in the middle of a nightmare . |
| 16 | She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting . |
| 17 | His description was that ‘ it is easy to aim for the front room and find yourself in the kitchen ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |