Example sentences of "[noun] find [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 3 | Once again , the Elves found themselves in the middle of a war without a Phoenix King . |
| 4 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
| 5 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Moreover , everyone who holds cash or non-interest-bearing deposits in banks finds himself in the camp of the wealth-losing lenders . |
| 13 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 14 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 15 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 16 | In this reading of things , each bureaucracy has become adept at marking out turf and advancing its own interests , whilst the Party-State leadership finds itself in the position of ‘ broker ’ between contending interests and ‘ constituencies ’ . |
| 17 | MAGNUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE HOT SEAT |
| 18 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 19 | Miles found himself in the water , tangled in coils of rope , battered by sealskin floats . |
| 20 | It was not until autumn that Jennifer found herself in the city again . |
| 21 | On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy . |
| 22 | There was not a word said of business until they came to table in Isambard 's great hall , where the envoy found himself in the place of honour at his host 's right hand . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’ |
| 24 | As more people find themselves in the same position , men stop mocking each other for doing housework and mothers-in-law cease criticising their sons ' wives about going out to work . |
| 25 | Martin Pawley finds himself in the grip of museum culture |
| 26 | The troubled programme has been bedevilled by the tardiness of some countries in implementing the 278 proposals required to remove all internal frontiers to business , and Mrs Thatcher found herself in the slightly unusual position of being praised by Mr Jacques Delors , the president of the European Commission , for being in the vanguard of the reform process . |
| 27 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 28 | That J&F Johnston find themselves in the Middle East at all is a testament to the good works of Scottish Trade International , the joint Scottish Enterprise/Scottish Office agency . |
| 29 | With his whining , nasal , urban voice , there are moments when he is the weedy boy at the summer camp or Woody Allen finding himself in the South American jungles in Bananas . |
| 30 | Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles . |