Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found ourselves in a wide desert street , lined unevenly with flat adobe buildings , the same dun colour as the street and the surrounding desert . |
| 2 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 3 | Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible . |
| 4 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 5 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 6 | Mungo found himself in a small , wild garden with a rickety greenhouse whose roof was as green as pond-slime . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 9 | Later that same year Lord Thurso found himself in a similar predicament in Kelvin Hall , Glasgow . |
| 10 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 13 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 14 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 17 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 18 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 23 | As the town hall clock struck twelve he found himself in an untidy cul-de-sac beneath the railway arches . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Spelthorne ( Mr. Wilshire ) found himself in an interesting ideological twist on whether function or structure came first . |
| 25 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 26 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 27 | The defense Department , a major user of At and T services , found itself in a new position yet still charged with statutory requirements regarding national security , emergency preparedness and defence of national interests . |
| 28 | The government found itself in a difficult diplomatic position , given the fierce denial of the allegations by the Belgian authorities . |
| 29 | We hear that during September , Pest Control Westminster found itself in an embarrassing situation of having under spent on its petty cash budget by 10% . |
| 30 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |