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 . |