Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 3 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 4 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 5 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 6 | None of the usual tricks for shutting off memory would work now ; whatever he did , whichever way he diverted his attention it would only come wandering back , like a man in a maze who continually finds himself back in the same spot . |
| 7 | And , if it had not been for the speedy response from the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 8 | And if it had not been for the speedy response of the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 9 | Finding herself back in the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken lost no time in looking down the microscope again . |