Example sentences of "[noun prp] find [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 2 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 3 | The first attempt to penetrate the Latin American market was made in the early 1930s , when Moscow found itself with a surplus of oil in a world marketing network tightly controlled by the major multi-nationals . |
| 4 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 5 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 6 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 7 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 8 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 9 | So , as the 71/72 season dawned , Athletico found themselves with a new team , a new league and a bright future . |
| 10 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 11 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 12 | If McAlpine finds itself in a position to proceed to Stage II of the IDO registration procedure , i.e. the drawing up and presentation of a Plan of Operations , the Consortium will have to consider the following : |
| 13 | Here Alice Walker finds herself in a typical double bind : the cultural and political conditions of her novel are deracinated ; it becomes immensely popular among white middle-class readers who , unsurprisingly , have read few other black writers ; it is accused of assuaging white guilt , of being charmingly apolitical … |
| 14 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 15 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 16 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 17 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 18 | Benny found herself in a rock-walled tunnel , with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling at regular intervals . |
| 19 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 20 | Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee . |
| 21 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 22 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 23 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
| 24 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 25 | Each year groups from mainland Spain find themselves at the house of the White Dove , a name symbolic of the peace and comfort which they experience through his caring approach . |
| 26 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 27 | Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch . |
| 28 | Glasgow St Enoch Square found themselves among the prizewinners for consistently coming up with good , well qualified leads . |
| 29 | That is the real reason Strathclyde finds itself in the midst of the gravest financial crisis in its history — not the can pay , wo n't pay' Poll Tax rebels . |
| 30 | In no time at all , The Haçienda found itself with a reputation of being the coldest , most unresponsive , most apathetic gigging hall in the country . |