Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 33 | Three narrow and thoroughly encouraging defeats ( 1–0 , 5–0 , 9–0 ) kicked off the 55/56 season and raffle winner Sid Beamish found himself at the helm . |
| 34 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 35 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 36 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 37 | We must now return to the general situation in which 5 Corps found itself at the end of 15 May . |
| 38 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 39 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
| 40 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 41 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
| 42 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 43 | ‘ He found her at the Borrehus at Falster where Søren , her third husband , manned the ale taps and where she ferried peasants and their cattle across the sound . |
| 44 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 45 | Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom . |
| 46 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 47 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 48 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 49 | ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door . |
| 50 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 51 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 52 | Christina approached him at the reception desk where he stood . |
| 53 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 54 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 55 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 56 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
| 57 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 58 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 59 | ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ . |
| 60 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |