Example sentences of "we find [pn reflx] [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 Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care .
7 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 .
8 Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp .
9 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 .
10 We find ourselves in an impossible position .
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