Example sentences of "[noun] find [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach . |
| 2 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 3 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 4 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 5 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 6 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 7 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 8 | Good luck to all those , and there are dozens , who this spring find themselves beyond the dressing-room doors . |
| 9 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 10 | Once again , the Elves found themselves in the middle of a war without a Phoenix King . |
| 11 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
| 12 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 13 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 14 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 15 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 16 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 17 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 18 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
| 19 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 20 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 21 | What if a council finds itself on the brink ? |
| 22 | Each year groups from mainland Spain find themselves at the house of the White Dove , a name symbolic of the peace and comfort which they experience through his caring approach . |
| 23 | Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch . |
| 24 | We must now return to the general situation in which 5 Corps found itself at the end of 15 May . |
| 25 | Glasgow St Enoch Square found themselves among the prizewinners for consistently coming up with good , well qualified leads . |
| 26 | As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream . |
| 27 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 28 | That is the real reason Strathclyde finds itself in the midst of the gravest financial crisis in its history — not the can pay , wo n't pay' Poll Tax rebels . |
| 29 | However , Nottingham Forest find themselves at the foot of a Premier League where standards are low , largely due to a paucity of decent managers and where none have Clough 's breadth of knowledge and experience . |
| 30 | Moreover , everyone who holds cash or non-interest-bearing deposits in banks finds himself in the camp of the wealth-losing lenders . |