Example sentences of "[pers pn] found [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 2 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 3 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 4 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 5 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 6 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 7 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 8 | By chance , I found myself in the royal apartments , a long , polished gallery where the freshly waxed wood winked in the sunlight and the walls shimmered with the exquisite tapestries hung there . |
| 9 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 10 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
| 11 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 12 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 13 | Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile . |
| 14 | She found herself in the public library . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 19 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 20 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 21 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |