Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] find [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
2 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |
3 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
4 | Yet it was clear after Irene left him that she , too , was badly in need of a container , and finally found one in Young Jolyon . |
5 | With the details of ohms , amps , radiation dosages , and the speed of a new high-velocity missile fresh in their minds , the military technologists have exhausted their discussions and now find themselves on parade . |
6 | The Old Testament prophets were devastatingly political and frequently found themselves in trouble for it . |
7 | ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’ |
8 | Put three in , find it 's cube root and then find one over that . |
9 | It got to the stage where we thought we were going to have to pull the idea of actually demonstrating skiing , but I follow if you 're writing about skiing , you at least had to show the difficulty of putting the boots on , and putting the skis on and side-stepping up the hill , and then finding yourself in a snow-plough position , and then turning around . |
10 | ‘ It 's no good getting to Wembley this season and then finding ourselves at Barnsley in September . |
11 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
12 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
13 | She assures him she has no such thing ; he enters the tower to look for a foutre and indeed finds one beneath the lady 's clothes . |
14 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
15 | If you imagine suddenly and unexpectedly finding yourself in an almost vertical dive facing the ground , it is easy to understand why so many pilots fail to make a movement forward on the stick to help the glider unstall itself . |
16 | He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine . |
17 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
18 | It should be borne in mind that many labour-only sub-contractors lack administrative and management ability and therefore find themselves in financial difficulties when employing labour or expanding their gang size . |
19 | Therefore , as we descend into Jupiter we encounter no surface , but gradually find ourselves amidst an ocean . |
20 | He has an unusually high belief in , and loyalty to , the group , but often finds himself in a hopeless tug-of-war . |
21 | Investment banks made hay while takeovers shone , but now find themselves with too many overheads , too few profits and no friends at all . |
22 | Window displays were becoming controversial within the company ; Laura liked to see windows full of antiques and atmosphere , but increasingly found herself at loggerheads with more prosaic minds who wanted products and price-tags . |
23 | I thought I was being taken to the prison but instead found myself outside the door of Le Coq d'Or . |