Example sentences of "[pron] found [pn reflx] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I found myself in a sack much larger than my body , but completely dark . |
| 2 | And yet , alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema : the transition from day to night ; the day for night of the viewing ; the transition back to daylight . |
| 3 | So it was that eventually I found myself in a hospital in Swindon close to other victims of Larry Foot . |
| 4 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 5 | She barked back , the door slid open wide enough for me to enter and I found myself in a roomful of dames all with rigor mortis of the third-finger-of-the-left-hand . |
| 6 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 7 | I found myself in the centre of town , going through the busy Saturday crowd . |
| 8 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 9 | I found myself in the kitchen , eating sugar from Lord Pabham 's hand . |
| 10 | Having done the recording , I found myself in the dressing-room in tears . |
| 11 | A helpful , somewhat overstated hotel doorman gave me instant directions , from which I found myself in the shadow of Vine Street facing what seemed to be a series of rear entrances to a rather less than impressive warehouse . |
| 12 | Once again the country which complained most about the policy was Britain , which found itself in the position of being a ‘ net contributor ’ to the EC after 1973 , paying far more into the EC than it received back . |
| 13 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 14 | Have you been at a party where you found yourself in a room and people started skinning up ? |
| 15 | Now , for a second great war , she found herself in a country which was not her own ; although she had made a few friends , it was not at all like living among her own people . |
| 16 | She found herself in a kitchen , which was full of smoke . |
| 17 | Haltingly , she spoke about her sudden irrational terror on the dance floor , the nun leading her away , how she found herself in a bedroom with Jack Butler . |
| 18 | She found herself in a cave , its mouth curtained by the waterfall . |
| 19 | She found herself in a department with two men in their early 20s . |
| 20 | The South African , once ranked in the world 's top 300 , decided to enter when she found herself in the north west for a three-months summer stay with her boyfriend 's family in Bolton , but was never seriously tested as Benmnett fell to her second consecutive defeat in the final . |
| 21 | Almost without knowing how she got there , she found herself in the garden . |
| 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 | We found ourselves in a hall where a masked ball was in progress . |
| 24 | Suddenly at St Aubyn 's we found ourselves in a crowd of seventy boys , nearly all older . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We found ourselves in the middle of nowhere . |
| 27 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The City streets were fairly quiet of course , but as we passed into the suburbs we found ourselves in the midst of the Saturday morning shopping rush . |