Example sentences of "find himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 2 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 3 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 4 | A staunch Tory , Shrewsbury was distressed to find himself at odds with some of his fellow Catholics over Ireland and deplored the support given to Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] |
| 5 | In pursuing these aims , de Gaulle continued to find himself at odds with the British and Americans . |
| 6 | In the latter case , one 's evidence is likely to be discounted by both sides simultaneously , which can be frustrating to the researcher to find himself to be ‘ the pig in the middle ’ . |
| 7 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 8 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 9 | J. was blown off his bicycle by the force of one explosion , while cycling from one aircraft to another , and woke up to find himself in hospital with concussion . |
| 10 | Wordsworth returned to France in November 1791 to find himself in ‘ a theatre , of which the stage/Was busy with an action far advanced ’ ( Prelude 1805 , ix , 93–4 ) . |
| 11 | One youth told of emerging from a drunken stupor to find himself in bed with the boy next door . |
| 12 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 13 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 14 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 15 | It seemed to Talbot that Van Gelder was going to find himself in something of a quandary . |
| 16 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 17 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 18 | A driver used to more power and rubber might expect to find himself in trouble if he attempted to maintain his normal pace with the cheapest Fiesta , but such is the confident poise of the car that it offers handling and grip of a far higher order than the tuned-for-economy engine can justify . |
| 19 | The new President 's foreign policy is very similar to that of his predecessor , so Mr Major is likely to find himself in accord with the White House on practically every external policy . |
| 20 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 21 | While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake . |
| 22 | In Cambridge that autumn he found himself without the steadying influence of Thomas Middleton , and without money . |
| 23 | Wyllie suddenly found himself without Brewer 's expertise , and Wyllis was incandescent with rage when a medical panel ruled Brewer out of the World Cup campaign . |
| 24 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 25 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 26 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 27 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he began , ‘ Robert found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the symbolism in Coleridge 's dream poems — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 29 | One evening in September Daniel found himself with nothing much to do after he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 30 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |