Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [verb] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if the speaker , in a state of semi-consciousness , was first aware of the stimulus , and then , an instant later , suddenly awoke to find himself confronted with the result provoked by this stimulus , without being conscious of the passage from one state to the other . |
| 2 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |
| 3 | She found herself agreeing with the historian 's distaste for Mills ' personal morality . |
| 4 | It was clear that the department would need to move with the times if its pupils were to continue to get good results , and , encouraged by her new Head of Department , Joanne found herself entrusted with the management of a curriculum innovation for the intake year . |
| 5 | Once again Leonora found herself fighting with the tiller in a dinghy threatening to stand on its head in a mountainous sea , but this time when the engine cut out she was plucked from the boat before she could hit the water . |
| 6 | Said the communique De Benedetti sent out by facsimile about an hour after his meeting with the judges , which the paper said seemed to be written in his own hand : ‘ Several times , I resisted the vexations of the regime , in some occasions I resigned myself to accept them , but only when I found myself faced with the necessity of defending the survival of the company and the thousands of dependents and shareholders toward whom I felt a massive responsibility . |
| 7 | Between ourselves , I sometimes find myself struggling with the reality of living in a Church which patently does not live out the implications of all this . |
| 8 | Dr Postlethwait pioneered the influential " audio-tutorial " method of teaching freshman botany , stimulated by finding himself faced with the task of teaching freshman botany to some 500 and more new students every semester and with a timetable allocation of three weekly hours of lecture or lab time . |