Example sentences of "[pron] find themselves [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action .
2 Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities .
3 Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end .
4 I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed .
5 One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general .
6 One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely .
7 Janet 's counsellor Mamie Graham is on the end of a phone 24 hours a day for those who find themselves at the sharp end of crime .
8 Will the Minister explain what he is going to say to the people of the Holloway area who find themselves in the unenviable position of having the jobcentre with the largest gap between the number of vacancies and the number of registered unemployed ?
9 O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried .
10 ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone .
11 In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times .
12 However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 .
13 Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward .
14 One video is not going to stop car crime on its own , but producers believe it may persuade some young people to think twice before they find themselves on the wrong side of the law .
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