Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 2 | As a music lover I found myself in search of the ultimate sound — and I do n't mean loud boomy bass . |
| 3 | SIR — Stephen Fry gives too much credit to P. G. Wodehouse , for it was W. S. Gilbert who , in 1881 , created the Duke of Dunstable — a gallant officer of the 35th Dragoon Guards who sacrificed himself in marriage to the Lady Jane to compensate for her misfortune in being distinctly plain . |
| 4 | Did he know exactly the kind of dilemma she found herself in ? |
| 5 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 6 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 7 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 8 | The racism which manifests itself in employment is only one , albeit crucial , part of the general experience of discrimination and subordination that black people have had to confront in Britain . |
| 9 | One does come across entrepreneurial academics , but there is still something slightly suspect in the academic world about making , as distinct from earning , money which manifests itself in the grey area of consultancy . |
| 10 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 11 | The labourers were drawn into a pattern of early marriages , large families and demoralisation which expressed itself in a growing surliness and a readiness to explode into violent , but contained , protest . |
| 12 | Alice in Wonderland is a text adventure game based on the very famous story 2f a young girl who finds herself in a strange land full of strange creatures and strange places . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 14 | At the grand banquet she toasted herself in champagne owing to confusion . |
| 15 | Even just the memories of 1988 Winter Olympics folk hero Eddie ‘ the Eagle ’ Edwards , the British ski jumper who put himself in the Calgary Games regardless of a lack of skill or training , made more of an impact with the American sporting public than super-fit and talented rugby players such as David Campese , Jeremy Guscott or Wade Dooley . |
| 16 | At that moment I glimpsed myself in a shop window and was pleased with what I saw . |
| 17 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 18 | In the context of special need this means selecting competent , adaptable and understanding staff who are sensitive to the needs which present themselves in the school and who are prepared to undertake the study and training required to keep pace with developments . |
| 19 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 20 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 21 | One day I uncovered myself in front of him , stroked my body , my breasts , my ass . |
| 22 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 23 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 24 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 25 | The law of contempt is a doctrine of wide scope which manifests itself in a variety of types of contempt . |
| 26 | We are currently considering these issues and expect to offer advice and guidance to actuaries who find themselves in these circumstances which can often prove difficult for a professional advisor . |
| 27 | But it was n't just the disc dodgers who found themselves in trouble . |
| 28 | But Harris , who made 47 in the first innings and Puddle who promoted himself in the batting order had other ideas . |
| 29 | Most ‘ carers ’ simply happen to be those nearest relatives who find themselves in an unwanted , unsought and very stressful situation . |
| 30 | This case supports the view expressed in Baker v Hopkins that a person who places himself in danger may owe a duty of care to a rescuer . |