Example sentences of "[noun prp] find himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian .
2 Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing …
3 Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion .
4 ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard .
5 Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold .
6 MAGNUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE HOT SEAT
7 In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity .
8 Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles .
9 And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them :
10 However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager .
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