Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 2 | I do not know whether the director of The Tallis Scholars was gratified to find himself presented in The New Yorker as an American stereotype of the classy Englishman with a dandyish dress sense , a love of cricket , a public school education leading to Oxford , and a colloquial idiom with a touch of P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 3 | He was amused to find himself surrounded by the dead mackerel of his own catch , and held one aloft , waving and shouting to his crew that if they did n't hoick him out good and quick , there 'd be no free ale in Mother Russell 's that night . |
| 4 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 5 | Panic struck the New York stock market , share values fell dramatically and Hoover found himself presiding over the worst economic depression in the history of the USA . |
| 6 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 7 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 8 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 9 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 10 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 11 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 12 | But instead of the greed-crazed madman he expected , he found himself looking into the round red face of a Sergeant of the Watch . |
| 13 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 14 | These tales made quite an impression on me as did the story of Uncle Fred 's eldest son , young Fred as he was known , putting on his age and managing to join the Marines when only sixteen , then found himself serving on the same ship as his father during the great battle — something of a unique record . |
| 15 | With the Philharmonia wind players at their vaulting , brilliant best , it was a performance which Porter found himself preferring to the mellower and long-admired Clemens Krauss recordings , which sounded tame by comparison . |
| 16 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 17 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 18 | Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits . |
| 19 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 20 | Reining up , the Regent found himself master of the southern approaches to Berwick , and cutting off Edward of England from his own territories and sources of supply . |
| 21 | Brian Whitaker , a former editor of the Sunday Times ‘ Insight ’ team who was responsible for much of the last-minute layout , found himself interrupted by the constant political hubbub . |
| 22 | The Londoner found himself staring into the expressionless face of the tall and broad , blond-haired , blue-eyed bouncer . |
| 23 | Lord Whitelaw , a figure from the past , alighted from a black Rover , and , turning towards France in order to return the salutations of the mob , found himself staring into the bloodshot eyes of Class War . |
| 24 | Thus he found himself working within the grey area between employment agencies and headhunters . |
| 25 | Mr Berkley found himself responding to the insistent beat . |
| 26 | Back inside the house , he found himself confronted by the gin-filled man . |
| 27 | As he suggested that Richards had been less than sporting , Martin-Jenkins found himself banned from the local airwaves and Public Enemy Number One in Barbados ; since he is renowned as a courteous , generous-spirited chap , it brought home to English fans just how fervently Richards is regarded in the Caribbean , although any English supporter who watched the incident on television would have been hard pushed to disagree with Martin-Jenkins 's assessment of it . |
| 28 | Though Yeltsin dropped his idea of a party , Grachev found himself targeted by the anti-presidential opposition at a moment of acute crisis . |
| 29 | Even while freeing its market at home , America found itself locked into the pernicious logic of government-to-government deals abroad . |
| 30 | Hence if the Roundabout Motel were to find itself traversed by the proposed M15 bypassing Seachester , it may be compulsorily purchased after the holding of the requisite public inquiry and the approval of the M15 route . |