Example sentences of "[adv] found himself [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Schmeichel excelled himself as Torpedo 's blond danger man Talalayev suddenly found himself 14 yards from goal but his cannon shot was miraculously pushed away by the goalkeeper .
2 Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens .
3 But Coleridge soon found himself adrift once more on a sea of self-doubt , without employment of any kind , and without money .
4 Gourlay opened the second set with a double , but two ends later found himself two sets down after a maximum 4 and a 3 gave Corsie the set 7-2 .
5 The hesitant middle-aged gentleman who was brave enough to join a keep fit class later found himself confident enough to join the neighbouring management training and business start-up class , and grew in confidence and ability to the extent that he opened up a new business .
6 Eventually Richards told Killion to shut up and then found himself obliged to say something else in his place .
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