Example sentences of "[adv] found himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 2 | Wyllie suddenly found himself without Brewer 's expertise , and Wyllis was incandescent with rage when a medical panel ruled Brewer out of the World Cup campaign . |
| 3 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 4 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 5 | Schmidt suddenly found himself in the space between them , his hand outstretched for the lock . |
| 6 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 7 | Haslam soon found himself in a position of having to make entrepreneurial decisions of staggering proportions . |
| 8 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
| 9 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |
| 10 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 11 | Separated from his tutor , Charles nevertheless found himself in a fairly congenial environment : Markward was a noted scholar , and Prüm 's library was well-stocked . |
| 12 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 13 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 14 | Hoomey , having learnt to steer his bus at a steady canter round the railway cinder track and clear two foot of sleepers on each circuit , now found himself with quarter of a mile of galloping grass and a hedgerow at the end of it reinforced with a telegraph pole . |
| 15 | Ramsay now found himself to be in command of this detachment , the only knight present . |
| 16 | Charles now found himself in a situation that would often recur : he had important unfinished business in Aquitaine , but his presence was required in Francia . |
| 17 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 18 | Although Phil had been slightly reserved in his manner towards her ( Nancy ) , she knew that that was his way and she was enjoying the company of that wiry , small-boned , gently spoken citizen from Sacramento who almost invariably found himself at the back of every queue that ever formed itself . |
| 19 | Mozart increasingly found himself in need of fraternal charity : as his personal financial situation worsened over the next few years , he was obliged to turn to his brother-Masons for loans ( which , to their credit , were almost always forthcoming ) . |
| 20 | While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake . |
| 21 | Mozart immediately found himself among friends , especially Cannabich ( for whose 13-year-old daughter he wrote a piano sonata ) , the oboist Ramm , the flautist Wendling ( who was the father of several attractive daughters ) , and the tenor Raaff . |
| 22 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 23 | He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine . |
| 24 | I think he knew when he truly found himself in front of a work of art . |