Example sentences of "find [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 4 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 5 | I found them in an old file . |
| 6 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 7 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 8 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 9 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 10 | Beyond the 6th of October bridge we found ourselves amongst an agitated crowd . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 13 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start . |
| 16 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 17 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 18 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 19 | In Cambridge that autumn he found himself without the steadying influence of Thomas Middleton , and without money . |
| 20 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 21 | At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria . |
| 24 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager . |