Example sentences of "[adv] find [pn reflx] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett , who had a string of classical roles behind him but was best known as the star of Steptoe and Son on TV , played a married travelling salesman , Brian , who is having an affair and aches for his lover after a fortnight 's absence , only to find himself sharing a bedsitting room with a religious zealot , Arnold , played by Crawford . |
| 2 | Mr Collin said some people have threatened to withhold the £20 surcharge in protest only to find themselves facing the threat of court action . |
| 3 | This underground showplace was unsuspected until 1923 when a Cambridge undergraduate named Long noticed a small aperture in the hillside and , upon investigation by crawling into it , soon found himself entering a more commodious passage which in turn led to a magnificent cavern drained by a dancing stream and liberally decorated with delicate stalactites and natural carvings . |
| 4 | The Ukrainian settlement in the north west has always been close-knit and Ivan Solowka soon found himself running a club for the 20 or so families in Middleton . |
| 5 | Choosing a left turn , she soon found herself facing a blank door which might , for all she knew , lead to the cuttings library . |
| 6 | The government soon found itself taking an ambivalent stance towards the waiguoren ( foreigners ) . |
| 7 | Visitors to Hannover soon find themselves crossing a painted red line meandering across pavements and squares . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You 'll soon find yourself developing a pretty sure grasp of what colour is all about . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He could have lied , but he usually found himself speaking the truth to Mrs Lorimer ; it was another reason for moving out . |
| 13 | ( Rule of life No. 24 : If you ever find yourself needing a solicitor , it 's too late . ) |
| 14 | Though let's admit that personal security has recently become distressingly tenuous all over the world , and the most innocent and uninvolved of people can still find himself made a pawn in all manner of dangerous games . |
| 15 | I also found myself facing an astonished mandroid guard , who began to reach for his holstered stun-gun . |
| 16 | He repeatedly found himself asking the question Who ? — and What ? — was he ? |
| 17 | He had Letty and now found himself dreading a new face to love . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Both the Skelton family and the Griffiths family now find themselves paying the price of those risks . |
| 21 | Attempts at humour aside , I now find myself penning a few words of concern for Salford 's Graduate Association now that the same question seems to be written large on the proverbial wall . |
| 22 | We now find ourselves confronting a massive pay-back . |
| 23 | In addition , you will need good relations with the media for you 'll often find yourself ringing a newspaper asking for a couple of hours " grace . |
| 24 | He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way , despite Gomez 's future role as his executioner . |
| 25 | We have even found ourselves teaching a little bit of linguistics , since some of the comrades seemed interested . |
| 26 | Do not deflect the opponent so that his open side faces you or you may well find yourself facing a powerful reverse punch fuelled by the fall forward . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He never made the service because of the crash — and instead found himself offering a confession to police . |
| 30 | 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 . |