Example sentences of "[adv] find [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 2 | They eventually found themselves in a huge square where a white marble fountain played in the centre . |
| 3 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 4 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 5 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 6 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 7 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 8 | And what course of action would the Mozambican journalists who criticize their government 's policies ( Political puzzles ) take if they suddenly found themselves in the hot-seat of a country in chaos ? |
| 9 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 10 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 11 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 12 | Wyllie suddenly found himself without Brewer 's expertise , and Wyllis was incandescent with rage when a medical panel ruled Brewer out of the World Cup campaign . |
| 13 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 14 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 15 | Schmidt suddenly found himself in the space between them , his hand outstretched for the lock . |
| 16 | Having ridden the contradictions , the paper suddenly found itself in the middle of them . |
| 17 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 18 | THE story goes that many centuries ago some fishermen in the South China Sea were driven north by a typhoon , but were fortunate enough to find themselves in a splendid natural harbour protected by a large island . |
| 19 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 20 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 21 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 22 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 23 | And while we 're on the subject of missing musical objects , SCORPIO RISING have suddenly found themselves minus a bass player and interested parties , willing to relocate to Liverpool , should contact Marc on 051–608 2084 . |
| 24 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 25 | A stockbroker looking at Vermeer 's ‘ Portrait of a Young Woman at the Met ’ suddenly finds himself alongside another woman whose face resembles the painting . |
| 26 | ‘ Internationally , ’ the Jerusalem Post noted , ‘ Israel suddenly finds itself in a glare of warm light as excruciatingly awkward as it is refreshingly flattering — a position of strength based almost entirely on passivity . |
| 27 | This approach means that we do not continue to recruit permanent staff to the Community Charge then perhaps find ourselves with too many permanent staff to fill Council Tax posts . |
| 28 | Because some of the features are handled by add-on software , like Inset and Star Exchange , you suddenly find yourself with a slightly different set of menu commands to learn . |
| 29 | You can be in good shape , mentally , physically and spiritually , yet suddenly find yourself in a situation where destructive power from within seeks to engulf you . |
| 30 | Girls who suddenly find themselves with enormous breasts may collapse in on themselves in embarrassment or try to hide behind folded arms , and the result is an equally collapsed voice which often gives out altogether at crucial moments . |