Example sentences of "we found [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found ourselves working very beautifully together , and we finished this play … |
| 2 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 3 | We found ourselves in the kitchen where a well-groomed girl was washing up - one of the tasks for which residents were responsible in this co-operative household . |
| 4 | As we slowly descended , the mist cleared a little , and we found ourselves amid sheep pastures … ’ wrote the late Louis Littman , a successful businessman , when he and his wife first saw Ashley Chase with a view to buying it . |
| 5 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 6 | Then I undressed her , and dressed her up in her own clothes , she acquiescent as a little child , talking all the time about the snowdrops , and how the days were beginning to draw out — and everything except people , and the circumstances in which we found ourselves . |
| 7 | Though we found ourselves asking whether the story was about faith or faithlessness , we were left in no doubt about Abraham 's stature at the end . |
| 8 | When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy . |
| 9 | We found ourselves lost , just as Masha and I had been when a sudden mist had descended on the lower slopes of the Wetterhorn . |
| 10 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 11 | Not only was the conversation flowing more freely and loudly , we found ourselves serving out wine at a conspicuously increased rate . |
| 12 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 13 | We found ourselves uncharacteristically hesitant . |
| 14 | In the political climate we found ourselves in , EOPs made sense and were interpreted in their widest sense as applying to attitudes , behaviour , recruitment , training — through to the content and manner in which we delivered our service to the public . |
| 15 | Ahmed : At the meeting , what made the most impact was the situation in which we found ourselves . |
| 16 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road and into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 17 | Mr Mellor said : ‘ We found ourselves devoid of water and unable to bath or do anything . ’ |
| 18 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |
| 19 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 20 | ‘ After the success of ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ we found ourselves in the position we 'd always dreamed of , ’ explains Mark Hollis , the main force behind Talk Talk . |
| 21 | Yes , erm , we found ourselves in , rather to go back . |
| 22 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 23 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
| 24 | One evening the Under-Secretary and the expatriate managed to call within minutes of each other and we found ourselves playing host to them both . |
| 25 | Beyond the 6th of October bridge we found ourselves amongst an agitated crowd . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 28 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 29 | We found ourselves in the middle of nowhere . |
| 30 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |