Example sentences of "find [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 3 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start . |
| 7 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 8 | At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 11 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 12 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 13 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 14 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 15 | Later that same year Lord Thurso found himself in a similar predicament in Kelvin Hall , Glasgow . |
| 16 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |
| 17 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 18 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 19 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 20 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 21 | The defense Department , a major user of At and T services , found itself in a new position yet still charged with statutory requirements regarding national security , emergency preparedness and defence of national interests . |
| 22 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 23 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 24 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 25 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 26 | She was tied up until lunch with yet another department meeting but , after a sandwich in the refectory , found herself with a clear afternoon . |
| 27 | Since Robbie 's own heated state had been engendered by his unexpected physical onslaught , she found herself without a suitable answer . |
| 28 | When she emerged , she found herself in a small square beside a canal so wide that she immediately realised it must be the Grand Canal itself . |
| 29 | Kim soon found herself in a tiny tenement flat . |
| 30 | Benny found herself in a rock-walled tunnel , with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling at regular intervals . |