Example sentences of "[coord] find [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 2 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 3 | I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down . |
| 4 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 5 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 6 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 7 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 8 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 9 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 10 | I slipped past the dozing duo , and found myself in a labyrinth of corridors . |
| 11 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 12 | I went on , confident of my compass , but becoming less so , and found myself in the middle of a disused airfield , among landing markers , gutted buildings and a wrecked radar scanner . |
| 13 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 14 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 15 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 16 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 17 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 18 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 19 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 20 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 21 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 22 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 23 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 24 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 25 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 26 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 27 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 28 | They turned a corner and found themselves outside the cone shaped building . |
| 29 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 30 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |