Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] find [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 2 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 3 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 4 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 5 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 6 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 7 | Hazel reached the hedge , crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long , shadowy aisle between two rows of beans . |
| 8 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 9 | Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box . |
| 10 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 11 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 12 | Chantal prised herself from D'Arcy 's grasp and found herself eagerly reaching for the receiver . |
| 13 | Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods . |
| 14 | Ianthe had gone into a kind of day dream and found herself wondering what John did in the evenings . |
| 15 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 16 | Perfectly safe , until I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and found myself , the only female , in a street lined with male prostitutes . |
| 17 | From here we descend to the crypt and find ourselves surrounded by the 11C remains of the Romanesque basilica . |
| 18 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 19 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 20 | Greg Hocking was one of those rare people who drift into teaching and find themselves , to their own surprise , absolutely cut out for the job . |
| 21 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 22 | At Newport Morrissey fell victim to innocent crowd over-enthusiasm and found himself dragged into the mob . |
| 23 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 24 | It said : ‘ On my way to the courtyard this morning , I went into your gallery as a sanctuary and found myself surrounded by startling , horrific and disturbing images which yet had a positive and uplifting effect . |
| 25 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 26 | What we mean by this , is that at times of great stress we can all be overwhelmed by the experience and find ourselves ‘ at sea ’ , not knowing what to do . |
| 27 | She caught his eye and found herself smiling up at him . |
| 28 | We caught a local bus to the town and found ourselves seated among chickens , fish and women chewing beetle nut . |
| 29 | To walk the length of a great basilica from porch to apse was to make the journey of salvation and find oneself in ‘ a place of perfection , the heavenly Jerusalem , its walls and buildings made in heaven , transferred to this spot ’ . |
| 30 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |