Example sentences of "found himself [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 2 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 3 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 4 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 5 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 6 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 7 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 8 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 9 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 10 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |