Example sentences of "[noun] find himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 2 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 3 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 4 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 5 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 6 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 7 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 8 | MAGNUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE HOT SEAT |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 13 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 14 | However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager . |