Example sentences of "[conj] find himself in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 2 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 3 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 4 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 5 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 6 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 7 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 8 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 9 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 10 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 11 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 12 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |