Example sentences of "[noun] find [pn reflx] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 2 | As on his visit to Peking in May , the Soviet President this weekend risks finding himself an unwilling player in a domestic political drama which eclipses the notional reason for his presence . |
| 3 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 4 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 5 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 6 | Consequently , instead of being censured , Mr Reed finds himself a heroic front-runner in the 1991 Guttersnipe Man Of The Year contest . |
| 7 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 8 | ‘ These hospitals are essential in an area like this where many older people find themselves a long way from their family , ’ says Dr David Skerrett , a GP who has practised in Fowey , Cornwall , for 30 years and plans to stay put for his retirement . |
| 9 | With representatives arriving in Blackpool for today 's opening session of the most critical of Conservative conferences for many years , the former Cabinet minister finds himself the focal point for public and party disaffection with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 10 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 11 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |