Example sentences of "[pers pn] have 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've found myself under pressure to say yes , when somebody 's brought along a nice new spanking camera and er I just c could n't accept it . |
| 4 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fortunately she 'd found herself within reach of the small hall table which held the telephone and had been able to ring her neighbour . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had found herself in the safe nook between Fenna 's sail-like wing and the crenellated and fantastic fortress of his spine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And already we 've found ourselves with the word on our lips ! |
| 12 | ‘ We 've found ourselves in a spot of bother with the police over at the office . |
| 13 | ‘ … we have found ourselves at the end of the research thoroughly persuaded of its merits . |
| 14 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 18 | 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 . |