Example sentences of "[conj] found [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 2 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 3 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 4 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 5 | I slipped past the dozing duo , and found myself in a labyrinth of corridors . |
| 6 | A fine fool she 'd look if Silas returned and found her in a state of emotional upset . |
| 7 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 8 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 9 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 10 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 11 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 12 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 13 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 17 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 18 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 19 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 20 | Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start . |
| 21 | Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table . |
| 22 | But to start our adventure story at the beginning … long before we visited Bali , we escaped the ashram walls of Subud in Java , raised some money to make our first film , and found ourselves amongst a tribe who literally believe their ancestors descended from the stars in skyships . |
| 23 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 24 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 25 | … and found herself in a part of the house she had never seen before . |
| 26 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 27 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 28 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 29 | The figure of Robert Duvall was holding a briefcase ; he glanced inside but found nothing but a sheet of blank paper . |
| 30 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |