Example sentences of "[noun sg] find [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 2 | The Artisans and the main Aldeburgh club find themselves in separate halves of the draw at the semi-final stage to be played on June 27 at neutral venues . |
| 3 | A palaeontologist and a journalist find themselves in Callimba , where Cleopatra 's sister Berenice once reigned . |
| 4 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 5 | It must be sad and hurtful for any parent to find themselves in this situation , because the vast majority of us have nothing but our children 's good at heart . |
| 6 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Instead the council finds itself in an impossible position . ’ |
| 8 | We are always sad when a young international athlete finds himself in this situation . ’ |
| 9 | The outbreak of war found him in Australia where , with his teacher 's patronage , he was attending a meeting of the British Association as secretary of the anthropology section . |
| 10 | Evening found her in despair at the crude grey mass . |
| 11 | Wednesday evening found him in Belfast for the Annual Dinner of the Norther Ireland Section , attended by about 550 members and guests . |
| 12 | The 34027 Locomotive Group found themselves in a similar position with a well-loaded train being cancelled within sight of the locomotive being prepared , so to speak . |
| 13 | Once the mystery has provided a sufficient reason for hero or heroine to find themselves in a good opening situation of suspense , the person or persons behind that mystery can be safety revealed . |
| 14 | W. T. Stead 's sensational exposé of the latter in his articles on ‘ The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ’ generated a sense of outrage with which a wide spectrum of public opinion found itself in sympathy . |
| 15 | On 17 September , a Thursday , at about ten o'clock in the morning , the Collector found himself in conversation with the Padre . |
| 16 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 17 | The second disc finds him in the company of an enlarged band , basically his regular four piece augmented by the likes of keyboardist Chuck Leavell , Phil Palmer on guitar , percussionist Ray Cooper and singers Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon , running through pieces like ‘ Wonderful Tonight ’ which at nine minutesplus is somewhat overextended . |
| 18 | As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream . |
| 19 | Well , it 's erm , fairly local incident , that this paper has been er borne , er to give the er permission for borrowing , when the labour , liberal er controlling group find themselves in this embarrassing position , er , of having to find an extra eleven million pounds to maintain their services . |
| 20 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 21 | For most of the folk immortalised by Louisa 's busy camera seem to have wanted posterity to find them in their Sunday best . |
| 22 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 23 | And the er she was running down the hill on but a lorry found them in Vale Park ! |
| 24 | We note that the court found nothing in the wording of section 2 which persuaded them that the course taken in A. v. H.M. |
| 25 | So their best event found them in sixth position . |
| 26 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 27 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
| 28 | Oh Dimitri , your wife found me in her office . |
| 29 | Compared with other training programmes , medical education finds itself in relatively fortunate circumstances . |
| 30 | In this reading of things , each bureaucracy has become adept at marking out turf and advancing its own interests , whilst the Party-State leadership finds itself in the position of ‘ broker ’ between contending interests and ‘ constituencies ’ . |