Example sentences of "we find [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Beyond the 6th of October bridge we found ourselves amongst an agitated crowd . |
| 6 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 7 | We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own . |
| 8 | In our first encounter with Satan we find him within the burning lake of Hell , having fallen from such a great height to such a great depth and now engulfed in fire , licked by flames , seemingly in pain , according to Milton 's narration , yet still able to speak with an uncanny strength and courage against ‘ the potent Victor ’ ( I. 95 ) . |
| 9 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 10 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 11 | Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp . |
| 12 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 13 | We find ourselves in an impossible position . |
| 14 | Pagan Greek literature does not have the phrase at all , and only twice do we find it in the Old Testament . |