Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 2 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 3 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 4 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 5 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 6 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 7 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 8 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 9 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 10 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 11 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 12 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 13 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 14 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 15 | Deputy editor Janette Marshall went to interview him recently ( see p.36 ) and found herself a late arrival at his impromptu wedding breakfast . |
| 16 | At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith . |
| 17 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 18 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 19 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 20 | Most regarded the special circumstances in which the enterprises concerned found themselves a legitimate reason for consenting . |
| 21 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 22 | ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy . |
| 23 | To find myself a Good Career to Travel and |
| 24 | The next morning I woke up , and was relieved to find myself a normal man again … |
| 25 | And I do n't bother to find myself a reflective surface wherein to follow them-although no doubt the gleam in Rainbow 's eye , or the slick of moisture on Anya 's parted lips , would do at a pinch . |
| 26 | I wanted to find myself a quiet corner and curl up in it . |
| 27 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 28 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 29 | But I notice , little madam , you were pleased enough to find yourself a good Catholic … . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe you ought to find yourself a younger jockey . ’ |