Example sentences of "[verb] find [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The message from my friend is this : that you should keep that pretty little nose out of things that do n't concern you if you do n't want to find yourself in a whole load of trouble . |
| 2 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 3 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 4 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 5 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 6 | The liberal-historians , on the other hand , tend to find themselves in a somewhat more tricky position . |
| 7 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |
| 8 | I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose . |
| 9 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 10 | He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’ |
| 11 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 12 | It is perfectly simple , relatively speaking , to store on magnetic tape within a computer a full catalogue entry , including a classification symbol or symbols , and to label each segment of the information in such a way that the computer can be programmed to find it on demand . |
| 13 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 14 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 15 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 16 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 17 | And it is apparent that Ackroyd has found himself in this manner — through exposure to Wilde , Eliot , and now Chatterton . |
| 18 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 19 | By the time I 've got up there and slithered through the cut-through , Casey has found himself in a fight . |
| 20 | A MUSICIAN who wrote a unique series of music books for physically disabled people has found himself in their shoes after suffering a stroke . |
| 21 | I am rather surprised that Martin Frears has found himself in this predicament . |
| 22 | Not for the War Museum , where the season of peace and goodwill has found plenty of Rambo-esque revellers prepared to toast each other across tank turrets and artillery guns . |
| 23 | So a new ball Lewis This his third chance Stone has found him in the end . |
| 24 | ‘ They are great pals , the prince enjoys her company and he has found her of great help in the recent troubles he has had at home . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the FRCN has found itself without an outlet in most state capitals . |
| 26 | In this chapter I have made no attempt to discuss why it should be that the DES has found itself in the situation of promulgating these various initiatives , or indeed how it sees the relationship between them . |
| 27 | The system has found itself in dire need of a new way of legitimating itself , and this need has given rise to a variety of responses . |
| 28 | In addition to suffering the longstanding US economic blockade , Cuba has found itself in 1990 and 1991 coming to terms with new threats to its economic viability . |
| 29 | This is almost the position in which the Liberal party has found itself in recent elections ( see Table 5.2 ) . |
| 30 | An Austrian commission of inquiry into the condition of a Czech reactor just inside the border between the two countries has found it to be in an extremely dangerous state . |