Example sentences of "[adv] found [pn reflx] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what course of action would the Mozambican journalists who criticize their government 's policies ( Political puzzles ) take if they suddenly found themselves in the hot-seat of a country in chaos ? |
| 2 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 3 | Schmidt suddenly found himself in the space between them , his hand outstretched for the lock . |
| 4 | Having ridden the contradictions , the paper suddenly found itself in the middle of them . |
| 5 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
| 6 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |
| 7 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 8 | I was usually summoned by telephone and invited round to Downing Street at 8 p.m. , when Wilson would be alone in the Cabinet room , which he preferred to any office or study , and where , sitting at the long Cabinet table , I often found myself in the seat normally occupied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and enjoyed moments of brief delusional glory ! |
| 9 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 10 | The normal processes of consultation took place , and after one or two false alarms , during which I kidded myself that I was perfectly all right , I ultimately found myself in the regulation NHS nightshirt , sitting amidst expectant mothers , in the gynaecology section of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital , waiting to sample the wonders of the ultra-scan . |