Example sentences of "[adv] find [pn reflx] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 5 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 6 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 7 | US airlines already find themselves at a disadvantage because of ‘ open sky ’ policies during Reagan-era deregulation , they say . |
| 8 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 9 | They will also find themselves at the centre of the debate over which sources are published and which are not . |
| 10 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 11 | At its most typical , this new form of innovation is at least primarily a marketing function , and this contrasts sharply with other kinds of innovation , which , governed by internal cultural purposes , often find themselves at the very margin of the market or indeed outside it altogether . |
| 12 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 13 | Actors from either side of the Atlantic have often found themselves at loggerheads . |
| 14 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 15 | Although Phil had been slightly reserved in his manner towards her ( Nancy ) , she knew that that was his way and she was enjoying the company of that wiry , small-boned , gently spoken citizen from Sacramento who almost invariably found himself at the back of every queue that ever formed itself . |
| 16 | Window displays were becoming controversial within the company ; Laura liked to see windows full of antiques and atmosphere , but increasingly found herself at loggerheads with more prosaic minds who wanted products and price-tags . |
| 17 | The Centre for Human Ecology , with its origins in the late C.H. Waddington 's ‘ School of the Man-Made Future ’ of the 1960s and a long history of promoting environmental awareness within the University , today finds itself at the hub of current ideology . |
| 18 | Horses eliminated from the race at the bottom of the handicap will tomorrow find themselves at the top of the weights for the ‘ consolation ’ race the William Hill Spring Mile . |
| 19 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 20 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 21 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's no good getting to Wembley this season and then finding ourselves at Barnsley in September . |
| 23 | Indeed , some of the individuals cited above would unquestionably find themselves at odds with certain of our conclusions . |
| 24 | So for various reasons , we actually found ourselves at . |