Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mungo found himself in a small , wild garden with a rickety greenhouse whose roof was as green as pond-slime . |
| 32 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 33 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 34 | Later that same year Lord Thurso found himself in a similar predicament in Kelvin Hall , Glasgow . |
| 35 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |
| 36 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 37 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 38 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 39 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 40 | Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles . |
| 41 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 42 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 43 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 44 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 45 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 46 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 47 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 48 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 49 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 50 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 51 | As the town hall clock struck twelve he found himself in an untidy cul-de-sac beneath the railway arches . |
| 52 | The hon. Member for Spelthorne ( Mr. Wilshire ) found himself in an interesting ideological twist on whether function or structure came first . |
| 53 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 54 | Whilst Mr. S. went to deal with a request made by the respondent 's new employer , the respondent entered the storeroom and helped himself to a key cutting machine from stock . |
| 55 | McClatchey restored St Helens ' lead with a stunning volley and Pennington helped himself to a fine hat-trick . |
| 56 | In a sullen silence he lit a cigar and helped himself to a stiff measure of brandy . |
| 57 | After making a foray into Bessie 's pantry , Lucien helped himself to a quick meal of bread and meat . |
| 58 | Charles greeted Joanne and helped himself to a large Scotch . |
| 59 | He opened the freezer and helped himself to a cold beer and the last of the chicken drumsticks from the packet he had bought earlier in the week . |
| 60 | He said Hobbins took the key , helped himself to a 20-round magazine , and stole a fellow soldier 's car to drive to Barbara 's Harlesden bedsit . |