Example sentences of "find itself [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the later pharaonic centuries Egypt found itself sacked several times by Libyans , Ethiopians , Persians and Assyrians , before being conquered by the Greeks under Alexander in 332 BC . |
| 2 | Thus the Mig-25 , designed originally as a high altitude interceptor of the B-70 , found itself adapted , upon the demise of the B-70 programme , for high speed reconnaissance and air defence . |
| 3 | They were however years of pleasure compared with the five which were to follow , when , with his successor Neville Chamberlain first out of 10 , Downing Street and then dead in six months , Baldwin became a target of resentment for the perils to which the nation found itself exposed . |
| 4 | The population found itself thrust back even further in time in its working and living conditions . |
| 5 | In the construction sector , George Wimpey found itself pushed much deeper into the red to a loss of £112.4 million last year due to falling property values . |
| 6 | On this view industry found itself subordinated to older sections of the upper class both economically and culturally . |
| 7 | The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable . |
| 8 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 9 | If fleeing and hiding have failed and the prey finds itself cornered by its would-be killer , it may make one last desperate attempt to save itself , by throwing caution to the wind and attacking the predator physically . |
| 10 | To add force to their indebtedness , each satellite finds itself enmeshed in a web of controls and relationships which institutionalise Soviet involvement in their internal affairs . |
| 11 | This is the perennial paradox in which literary criticism finds itself implicated : that , as Michel Foucault observed : |
| 12 | The state formerly reviled for cleaving too closely to Moscow 's line now finds itself berated by the Kremlin as well as the Western world for not following the path of glasnost and perestroika . |
| 13 | The Royal Family , just like the Labour Party , finds itself spooked by the Zeitgeist . |
| 14 | But murder it is , and whatever leniency is called for must find itself reflected either in a verdict of not guilty by a jury , despite the facts , in the sentence of the court ( though in England the sentence is at present fixed by law ) , or in the exercise of some executive discretion . |
| 15 | As such it could well find itself held up as an example for later books to match themselves against . |