Example sentences of "finds himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 2 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 3 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 4 | MAGNUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE HOT SEAT |
| 5 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 6 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 7 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |