Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] find [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 2 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 3 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 4 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |
| 5 | I can not say how strange it was , how peculiarly dead I felt , when I awoke to find myself at a distance from my father . |
| 6 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 7 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 8 | Fortunately she 'd found herself within reach of the small hall table which held the telephone and had been able to ring her neighbour . |
| 9 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 10 | But once the business had been established and the initial problems of setting it up had been dealt with , she had found herself with a certain amount of time at her disposal , time to relax , time to remember . |
| 11 | She had found herself in the safe nook between Fenna 's sail-like wing and the crenellated and fantastic fortress of his spine . |
| 12 | Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation . |
| 13 | The walls were maroon and the carpet was purple and the effect was expensive , but Lee felt as depressed as if she had found herself in the smelly hallway of a neglected and deprived residence . |
| 14 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 15 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 16 | At school he had been enthusiastic but undistinguished , and after it he had found himself in a polytechnic in the Midlands , in the state of paralysis of the imagination that tends to grip adolescents when the time for choosing a career looms . |