Example sentences of "[adv] find [pn reflx] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 2 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 3 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 4 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 5 | Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets . |
| 6 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 7 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 8 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 9 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |
| 10 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
| 11 | ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’ |
| 12 | He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine . |