Example sentences of "[pron] found [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 2 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 3 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 4 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |
| 5 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 6 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 9 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 10 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 11 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 12 | For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry . |
| 13 | ‘ By the time you found me on the moor , I knew everything , but I could prove nothing . |
| 14 | you found it on the bus did n't ya ? |
| 15 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 16 | She found herself on the threshold of Fearon 's bedroom : that was a bit tricky and she knew she ought to retreat there and then . |
| 17 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |
| 18 | Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ? |
| 19 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 20 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 21 | ‘ We found nothing on the river bank , ’ said Farag , still sturdily but less confidently . |
| 22 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 23 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 24 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 25 | We found it on the ice outside the North Bastion tower , yet you said you were in the city all night . ’ |
| 26 | We found it on the back . |
| 27 | And they found him on the floor ? |
| 28 | Someone 's phoned in to say they found it on the grass . |
| 29 | They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above . |
| 30 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |