Example sentences of "[pers pn] found [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found something from the AIDS one the new Benetton advert , have you seen that ? |
| 2 | I found myself considering the protocol — an absurdity in the face of my determination to flout convention with regard to the funeral arrangements ! |
| 3 | Again I felt that terrible pain and sickness , but a few seconds later I found myself with the face and body and character of Henry Jekyll once more . |
| 4 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |
| 5 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 6 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 7 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 8 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 10 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 11 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 12 | Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does . |
| 13 | I found myself in the centre of town , going through the busy Saturday crowd . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I found myself in the kitchen , eating sugar from Lord Pabham 's hand . |
| 16 | Having done the recording , I found myself in the dressing-room in tears . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 19 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 20 | Still on the subject of pets , I must n't forget Mrs. I found her under the millstone table outside the kitchen on a cold November evening . |
| 21 | Then I found her outside the kitchen door , crying , she 'd lost her shoes what with one thing and another and she was too ashamed to come back into the house . |
| 22 | I found her by the side of the house with her dog , looking like a complete tramp , with a patched-up old coat and hair all over the place . |
| 23 | I found her in the back kitchen , standing over the chef who was rolling out pastry . |
| 24 | I found her in the fog . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I found her in the fog with a sprained ankle and no home or family , ’ said Joe , ‘ so I brought her here to help her get on her feet in all ways . |
| 26 | Then one day , before breakfast , I found her in the sitting room , and no longer had to rely on hearsay . |
| 27 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
| 28 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 29 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
| 30 | ‘ I found it in the kitchen cupboard . |