Example sentences of "[noun] find themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | With the death of Olybrius and the appointment of Julius Nepos the Burgundians under Chilperic found themselves in opposition to the emperor ; presumably they withdrew from any involvement in the defence of the Auvergne . |
| 2 | It is n't that difficult then to imagine how Johanna 's parents found themselves on Christmas Eve in the position they did — unsure whether their daughter was with her friends or in terrible danger . |
| 3 | With the cumulative debt arising from this amounting to nearly 20 billion dollars by 1982 , the Yugoslavs found themselves in danger of default on debt service . |
| 4 | The limits on cash withdrawals were so strict that many companies found themselves without cash even to pay wages . |
| 5 | Suddenly Tring found themselves in front , with City committed to attack , Tring suddenly broke down the right and Danny Glass saw his strike-on goal pushed away by Taylor , but only into the path of Danny Rook following up , who put home after sixty five minutes . |
| 6 | In the summer of 1529 , during an outbreak of the plague in southern England , three men who had been students together at Cambridge found themselves by chance staying in the same house in Waltham . |
| 7 | The Christians found themselves under attack not only from the Roman government but also from Greek philosophers and representatives of high literary culture , orators , historians ( but not natural scientists ) . |
| 8 | But when in the early summer the Palestinians appeared on the slopes of Mount Sannine and the Christians found themselves in danger of total defeat , a Syrian military intervention in Lebanon became certain . |
| 9 | In the winter months , for example , many building workers find themselves without work because of bad weather and many workers in the tourism industry are also laid off . |
| 10 | It is relatively rare for accountants to find themselves in trouble , whether legal or ethical , because work they have done has been misinterpreted or misunderstood . |
| 11 | Moreover , if the person found themselves on income support when old , the calculations for income support would assume they were receiving their full old-age pension . |
| 12 | Thus from the beginning the community in Donegal found themselves in opposition to state policy when they raised questions over the implications of uranium prospecting and mining . |
| 13 | As not only Chubei and Umegawa but also Yohei and his wife find themselves under sentence of death from the Shoguns ' inexorable laws , both couples make a suicide pact . |
| 14 | The majority of glaziers and glass merchants find themselves from time to time with either ‘ salvage ’ plate glass from broken shop windows or ‘ off cuts ’ from new shop windows , explained Malcolm . |
| 15 | And , as already mentioned , their dawn was bedeviled with controversy so that the leaders as well as sympathetic hearing people found themselves in dispute about the best methods of helping and educating them . |
| 16 | Even now , disabled people find themselves in hospital because it is the only place that will look after them and for that reason alone . |
| 17 | If we can get a clear idea about the situation in which teachers find themselves at present , and how they experience it , then we shall be in a better position to see what the most productive way forward is . |
| 18 | An in-depth study of our early land law reveal(s) the existence of a substantial body of Islamic legal principles , a historical fact which contemporary scholars find themselves in difficulty to accept , having been so engrossed with the civil law system introduced in these shores after the arrival of the English administrators towards the close of the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Those who in peacetime seemed brave or merely quaint for believing in all those old doctrines found themselves in wartime much in demand , some as evangelists , some as prophets , some as teachers . |
| 20 | The Social Democrats found themselves without influence inside a hard-line Stalinist party . |
| 21 | FIREMEN called to a chimney blaze found themselves at boss Jeffrey Ord 's home at Alnwick , Northumberland . |