Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] find [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Old Testament prophets were devastatingly political and frequently found themselves in trouble for it . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's no good getting to Wembley this season and then finding ourselves at Barnsley in September . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Therefore , as we descend into Jupiter we encounter no surface , but gradually find ourselves amidst an ocean . |
| 15 | He has an unusually high belief in , and loyalty to , the group , but often finds himself in a hopeless tug-of-war . |
| 16 | Investment banks made hay while takeovers shone , but now find themselves with too many overheads , too few profits and no friends at all . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought I was being taken to the prison but instead found myself outside the door of Le Coq d'Or . |