Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] found [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 ’ .
2 Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could .
3 At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life .
4 ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’
5 Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century .
6 I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach .
7 The Mexican atmosphere was contagious and I soon found myself on a crowded coach bound for Mexico .
8 Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse .
9 I was usually summoned by telephone and invited round to Downing Street at 8 p.m. , when Wilson would be alone in the Cabinet room , which he preferred to any office or study , and where , sitting at the long Cabinet table , I often found myself in the seat normally occupied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and enjoyed moments of brief delusional glory !
10 This much was true , that I often found myself in my mother 's kitchen staring at the array of condiments , spices , herbs and tinned foods , wondering why she should have bought this particular kind of split peas , rather than another .
11 The normal processes of consultation took place , and after one or two false alarms , during which I kidded myself that I was perfectly all right , I ultimately found myself in the regulation NHS nightshirt , sitting amidst expectant mothers , in the gynaecology section of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital , waiting to sample the wonders of the ultra-scan .
12 It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor .
13 While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake .
14 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 .
15 We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men .
16 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 .
17 Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together .
18 We again found ourselves in a situation where we had to descend because of icing .
19 Some way along the journey , we inexplicably found ourselves in a Tesco car park in Derby .
20 So for various reasons , we actually found ourselves at .
21 They eventually found themselves in a huge square where a white marble fountain played in the centre .
22 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 ?
23 They also found themselves in opposition to certain local commercial interests as a fair number of shares in the mining company had been sold to people in the area , and thus certain local people had a vested interest in mining going ahead .
24 Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused .
25 I think he knew when he truly found himself in front of a work of art .
26 It therefore found itself in opposition to what it regarded as the stupidity , incompetence and prejudice of the actual holders of political and economic power .
27 A team of divers that included myself once found ourselves in such a situation .
  Next page