Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 3 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 4 | Beyond the 6th of October bridge we found ourselves amongst an agitated crowd . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 7 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 8 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 9 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 12 | In Cambridge that autumn he found himself without the steadying influence of Thomas Middleton , and without money . |
| 13 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 14 | At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 30 | Later that same year Lord Thurso found himself in a similar predicament in Kelvin Hall , Glasgow . |