Example sentences of "find [pron] in the [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 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 3 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 6 | Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles . |
| 7 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 8 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 9 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 10 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 11 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 12 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 13 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 14 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 15 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 16 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 17 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 18 | Her smile , as she gazed into the camera , was wry and mocking , as though it amused her to find herself in the traditional pose of a mother . |
| 19 | Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile . |
| 20 | She found herself in the public library . |
| 21 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 22 | He smiled and opened it , surprised to find it in the original Mandarin . |
| 23 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 24 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |
| 25 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 26 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 27 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |
| 28 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 29 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 30 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |