Example sentences of "i find [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 2 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 3 | On departure , many of the younger guests , deeming themselves insufficiently primed , were about to ‘ go on ’ somewhere , and in the end I found myself alone on the pavement with Eliot . |
| 4 | I found myself alone with a man the skin of whose face had the texture of hide , tanned the colour of stout . |
| 5 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 6 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 7 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 8 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 9 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 10 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 11 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 12 | ‘ I prefer this means of transport because I find it consonant with a certain feeling I have about myself — because it expresses a certain style of being that I find congenial — because I find the kinaesthetic sensations it affords , even the physical efforts and nervous tension , somehow involving . ’ |
| 13 | I find it breathtaking after the Group 4 fiasco they should even consider privatising those things which have a security content . |