Example sentences of "found themselves on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
2 | The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades . |
3 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
4 | Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain . |
5 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
6 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
7 | The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . ) |
8 | Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) . |