Example sentences of "find [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archaeologists from Newcastle University have already made a number of test excavations at the site of the extension and found nothing of historical value . |
| 2 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 3 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 4 | So their best event found them in sixth position . |
| 5 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 6 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 7 | Then , suddenly , we found ourselves in brilliant sunshine at the southern outskirts of the city , at the foot of the pre-Alps , where the River Adige emerges into the plain . |
| 8 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 9 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 10 | When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients . |
| 11 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 12 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 13 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 14 | Last year , Amnesty mounted a huge campaign against human rights abuses in Morocco , and King Hassan found himself under increasing pressure to make some sort of response . |
| 15 | He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced . |
| 16 | It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin , who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family : |
| 17 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 18 | Dr Runcie , the well known Archbishop , found himself in terrible trouble when he obviously betrayed his feeling that the Argentinians were human brings in the Falklands memorial service . |
| 19 | Piggott , 57 , found himself in all sorts of trouble on Martin Pipe 's 6–4 shot , who came from way back to take third place in the SIS Live Action Claiming Stakes won by Sarah-Clare . |
| 20 | The aircraft was just about to touch down when the pilot found himself in unfamiliar surroundings and opened his throttle in time for his wheels to clear the cliff-edge at the end of the runway . |
| 21 | Before he had decided what to do , Hebbert found himself in full layback position and simply had to carry it through or fall . |
| 22 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 23 | He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed . |
| 24 | They found plenty of common Church interests and then friendship ; they had conversations , which Ramsey enjoyed enormously , about matters political as well as religious ; Ramsey went over to Garrowby several times for meals or to stay the night and celebrate the sacrament in the morning ; and he conducted Halifax 's funeral at Kirby Underdale in 1959 . |
| 25 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 26 | I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose . |
| 27 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 28 | There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons . |
| 29 | We must now turn our attention to the wider situation in which 5 Corps found itself on 10–12 May . |
| 30 | Denmark is their other northern commitment , and it is there that 2 RRP found itself on 30 June 1989 . |