Example sentences of "[adv] find [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Collin said some people have threatened to withhold the £20 surcharge in protest only to find themselves facing the threat of court action . |
| 2 | Her eyes fluttered open , only to find him screwing the cap to the bottle . |
| 3 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 4 | You can do what I always do , which is I just sort of casually throw mine away , erm , because I just find it clutters the binder up otherwise . |
| 5 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 6 | The humiliating financial dependence on his parents , a fact of life ever since he had been dismissed from Goupil 's , was being gradually shifted on to Theo , who would soon find himself shouldering the whole burden . |
| 7 | She knew all too well he meant nothing by it , that he probably had n't even noticed he was doing it , but she still found herself hoarding the memory of each insignificant caress as a miser would hoard gold . |
| 8 | He could have lied , but he usually found himself speaking the truth to Mrs Lorimer ; it was another reason for moving out . |
| 9 | By the time three adults are up beside you singing , I usually find I have the attention of everyone . |
| 10 | He repeatedly found himself asking the question Who ? — and What ? — was he ? |
| 11 | Col Volkov had also found it helped the body to cope with stress in the cramped conditions of a space module . |
| 12 | As the mother of a nine-year-old girl , I often find myself questioning the wisdom of other parents in the light of recent attacks on young children . |
| 13 | In run-of-the-mill performances you often find yourself lamenting the absence of Lerner and Loewe 's songs from My Fair Lady , but in this detailed , absorbing production , Shaw 's verbal music is enough . |
| 14 | Both the Skelton family and the Griffiths family now find themselves paying the price of those risks . |
| 15 | He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way , despite Gomez 's future role as his executioner . |
| 16 | Today 's new mother may well find herself facing the additional difficulty of coping alone with her new-born infant — whether due to choice or circumstance . |
| 17 | Russian tanks were called out against striking East Germans and then against the ‘ defiance of Poland ’ in 1956 , when the Russian divisions marching on Warsaw almost found themselves fighting the Polish army and the armed workers of the capital . |
| 18 | This was obviously so in organisations which were expanding and which , as consequence , either found themselves exceeding the agreed limits on the size of their temporary labour forces or felt confident of being able to make commitments to a greater number of workers . |
| 19 | He was an immensely experienced journalist , but had never found anything to match the heyday of the Daily Mirror under Hugh Cudlipp in the 1960s . |