Example sentences of "he find [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Soapy walked away from Broadway and soon he found himself on Sixth Avenue . |
| 2 | He found himself on loan to the faculty of the National Intelligence Academy ( NIA ) in Fort Lauderdale as director of Video Operations . |
| 3 | By instinct rather than design he found himself at Saint Winifred 's altar , and kneeled to approach her , his creaky knees settling gingerly on the lowest step of her elevated place . |
| 4 | One day he found himself at Market Harborough but with no idea where he was going . |
| 5 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 6 | At 20 , he found himself in Paris heading Lanvin 's millinery department . |
| 7 | Then he found himself in conversation with the Queen and the subject cropped up . |
| 8 | Subsequently he found himself in conflict with the local media when he tried to prevent Radio Vanuatu from reporting the views of his opponents . |
| 9 | In 1970 , his hard times continued : not for the first or last time in his career , he found himself in trouble with the authorities , being disqualified twice , once when he was winning and once when he was in second place . |
| 10 | He found himself in front of the main station . |
| 11 | When he found himself in front his main concern was not whether he might hold on to win but whether he would follow the right course . |
| 12 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |
| 13 | In 1668 he found himself in gaol once again , this time on a charge of disturbing the peace . |
| 14 | When he found himself in charge of a famous school he seized his opportunity and set to work to instil in the offspring of the ruling classes the personally desirable and politically vital sense of sin . |
| 15 | One day he found himself in charge of the biggest train set in Never Never Land , and so he made some jolly exciting movies about friendly aliens , man-eating sharks , and an archaeologist who zoomed around the world thrashing Nazis . |
| 16 | He finds himself at odds with a ‘ world order ’ he thinks of as noisy , dirty , ruthless , cruel , narrow-minded , increasingly uniform and joyless . |
| 17 | An individual sitting on the board of such an inquiry may satisfy his own conscience if he finds himself in disagreement with his colleagues by exercising his right to attach a minority dissenting view to the formal report if he considers it necessary to do so . |