Example sentences of "he finds [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He finds himself ‘ considering the idea of flight ’ , and the idea of defeat : ‘ 1 suppose that , thinking of my own harassment and Raymond 's defeat , I had begun to consider Yvette a defeated person as well , trapped in the town , as sick of herself and the wasting asset of her body as I was sick of myself and my anxieties . ’ |
| 2 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 3 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 4 | It is rare in British industry for a designer to become the head of such a large business , and Conran can sometimes appear defensive about the unusual position in which he finds himself . |
| 5 | In his late twenties , he finds himself having to conduct family business via telephone and letter . |
| 6 | their enthusiasm is still that of a child who asks all kinds of fascinating questions about the new world in which he finds himself . |
| 7 | To do this he has to employ language and gesture appropriate to the context in which he finds himself — he may shout ‘ Halt ! ’ or give a salute on an army parade ground , but not at a picnic . |
| 8 | Many a teenager has been drawn into behaviour he would rather have avoided simply because he finds himself unable to stand up to his peers or to be the one who is ‘ different ’ . |
| 9 | These differences are an indication of the unique way in which each individual is responding to the circumstances in which he finds himself and of the state of that person as a whole , that is they show how his healing powers are operating at that time . |
| 10 | Morrissey is a product of the political climate he finds himself in , a period of the reformist Left moving to the right and the Right getting righter ( ie , bigger liars and thieves ) . |
| 11 | Despite his flight across continents , he finds himself an ‘ eternal witness to massacre ’ . |
| 12 | He will also learn to clarify his ends ; originally he saw no further than immediate goals , the satisfaction of hunger and relief from nausea ; later he conceptualizes the nourishing of the body by food and the danger to health of over-eating , and it is towards or away from these that he finds himself spontaneously pulled . |
| 13 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 14 | On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster , flares a-flap , hair streaming behind him like a curtain . |
| 15 | Lewis says he hopes that public pressure will force Bowe to fight him but after the euphoria of his win over Ruddock and the anticipation of becoming champion , he finds himself as far from the title as ever . |
| 16 | So if he finds himself behaving very differently in school to how he behaves at home , one of them has to be ‘ real ’ and the other ‘ phoney ’ . |
| 17 | As soon as a character moves through the arch from area 60 , he finds himself in a meadow of what looks like thick , lush , flesh-coloured grass . |
| 18 | As soon as a character walks through the green and yellow arch from area 61 , he finds himself in this vast stagnant bog . |
| 19 | When a character steps through the ever-changing arch , he finds himself on a narrow pathway through a forest of bizarre trees . |
| 20 | An individual sitting on the board of such an inquiry may satisfy his own conscience if he finds himself in disagreement with his colleagues by exercising his right to attach a minority dissenting view to the formal report if he considers it necessary to do so . |
| 21 | Whereas formerly he had been the subject of history , taking pride of place in God 's historical scheme from creation onwards , now ‘ the human being no longer has any history : or rather , since he speaks , works , and lives , he finds himself interwoven in his own being with histories that are neither subordinate to him nor homogeneous with him ’ ( 368 — 9 ) . |
| 22 | And now he finds himself the man who carries the main hopes of millions of GP crazy Spanish fans . |
| 23 | Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle . |
| 24 | Similarly , " this personage " , a mock dignified label for Pemberton himself perhaps fits the rather forbidding image he presents to the child , as well as reflecting sadly on Pemberton 's own lack of dignity in the situation in which he finds himself . |
| 25 | As more of the field officer 's job is bureaucratized and made more ‘ scientific ’ , he finds himself spending less time on the river bank . |
| 26 | He finds himself evaluated by the correspondingly vague notion of competence . |
| 27 | He is a bit embarrassed by this category because , despite its ‘ archaic ’ elements , he finds himself unable to deny its authentic power . |
| 28 | In the result , although I have considerable sympathy with the third party in the position in which he finds himself and I think it may well be the case that the third defendant will fail to obtain contribution from him , I do not consider that this will inevitably be so . |
| 29 | To his surprise he finds himself basically in agreement on a wide range of questions which he has never really thought about before . |
| 30 | He finds himself calling upon the Government to use its powers to stop or sink Christopher Columbus 's expedition before it reaches America , and sets off a chain of events disastrous to the ecology of two continents . |