Example sentences of "to find [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 2 | Every morning we woke to find ourselves surrounded by fresh tracks made by capybaras ( the world 's largest species of rodent , looking something like a giant guinea pig ) ; on our last evening , the boatman killed an alligator as it crawled past our camp-fire to go hunting in the reeds beyond . |
| 3 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 4 | But sometimes we are going to find ourselves facing those who thrive on fear , sweat , blood and adrenalin — people to whom fighting is a way of life . |
| 5 | For those of us who focused our energies on lesbian and feminists issues we were to find ourselves marginalized and isolated in English feminist groups , amongst women whose racism mirrored the population at large . |
| 6 | It was a little confusing to find ourselves setting off for the summits of the Viluyos barely an hour after the decision to do so . |
| 7 | As ITN 's Purvis points out : ‘ Increasingly , we 're going to find ourselves having to argue that news is good business — but I do n't think that 's too difficult . ’ |
| 8 | I would n't want us to find ourselves talking at cross-purposes . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't want to find ourselves locked in here , that would be extremely nasty . |
| 10 | I was there in September and our group miserably went up the valley from Mayrhofen in the rain and was even more miserable when we reached the summit to find ourselves in a blizzard . |
| 11 | If there is to be no common musical material we are going to find ourselves with something which , however distinguished , is not distinguishable , and which is therefore of questionable value . |
| 12 | When we wake it is to find ourselves alone and separate , trapped in the toils of matter . |
| 13 | What I want to make sure first of all is that erm you understand what has gone on before the scene that we actually want to find ourselves in . |
| 14 | He comes home late night , one Saturday night , having been working long hours , not having enough sleep , she nags him and Madam he loses his temper with her and Madam , I am sure that you and I in our relationships same sort of stress in a different situation where , where we 've been nagged by our partners and lost our temper and pushed them about , or whatever , and we 'd be very surprised I think to find ourselves in , in my client 's situation had that happened , because what , what happened here Madam was that erm the girlfriend suffered some minor injuries , nothing to worry about really . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 17 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 18 | Here he began to crystallise the wisdom of some of his best poetry , writing and songs ; for it was here that he was reborn , where he truly began to find himself ; where , not least , the music of Greece entered his soul , evoking earlier memories and melodies , combining with them to suggest a new style , a new mystique . |
| 19 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 20 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 21 | Nigel Lawson awoke at the start of the Conservative Party conference to find himself described as ‘ This Bankrupt Chancellor ’ on the front page of the Daily Mail . |
| 22 | After running a substantial international fibres business , it came as something of a cultural shock to find himself sitting in ICI 's headquarters with only a secretary to command . |
| 23 | The Prince was bursting with pride , and amused to find himself redundant . |
| 24 | Van Peebles père soured on Hollywood after directing the now-classic comedy ‘ Watermelon Man ’ ( 1969 ) , about a suburban businessman who wakes up one morning to find himself black . |
| 25 | The only answer was to find himself someone new . |
| 26 | ‘ A hero who sought to live out a mythological quest to find himself . |
| 27 | He was aware of nothing more until he opened his eyes some time later to find himself lying naked on a sheet of tarpaulin in the backyard . |
| 28 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 29 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 30 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |