Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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1 | We found ourselves in the kitchen where a well-groomed girl was washing up - one of the tasks for which residents were responsible in this co-operative household . |
2 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
3 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
4 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
5 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
6 | ‘ After the success of ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ we found ourselves in the position we 'd always dreamed of , ’ explains Mark Hollis , the main force behind Talk Talk . |
7 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
8 | We found ourselves in the middle of nowhere . |
9 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
10 | The City streets were fairly quiet of course , but as we passed into the suburbs we found ourselves in the midst of the Saturday morning shopping rush . |
11 | Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible . |
12 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
13 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
14 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
15 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
18 | Macarthy , the defence lawyer , found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable . |
19 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
20 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
21 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
22 | And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu . |
23 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
24 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
25 | Jason , 24 , found himself in the north African city between concerts in Bournemouth and St Austell — two other places Bogart never visited . |
26 | The same year , he found himself in the company of Mona , who described herself in court as an ‘ apolitical pacifist ’ who spread her huge family wealth in a series of film , TV , stage and property ventures . |
27 | HAPLESS John Major found himself in the middle of an almighty Tory punch-up over Europe yesterday . |
28 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
29 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
30 | Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch . |