Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know whether the director of The Tallis Scholars was gratified to find himself presented in The New Yorker as an American stereotype of the classy Englishman with a dandyish dress sense , a love of cricket , a public school education leading to Oxford , and a colloquial idiom with a touch of P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 2 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 3 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 4 | Unfortunately apart from some of the movies mentioned above , she found herself stuck in the '40s with the unwelcome label of Queen of the B's , because of her frequent roles in Charlie Chan , Mr Moto and Falcon Quickies . |
| 5 | They coexisted with the now somewhat depleted Byzantine empire but soon found themselves embroiled in the Crusader invasion at the end of the eleventh century , in the course of which were to emerge Baibars the Mamluk and the celebrated Kurdish warrior known as Salahuddin al-Ayyubi or Saladin . |
| 6 | Two rival regiments of the peacetime British Army found themselves quartered in the same town . |
| 7 | One 200-strong theatre audience who found themselves trapped in the chaos on Tuesday were given an impromptu hour-long concert by Tom Jones . |
| 8 | This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group . |
| 9 | Time and again intelligence organisations chase after these grandiose projects only to find themselves lost in the wasteland of truth created by their own stupidity . |
| 10 | I soon found myself engrossed in the history of the valley ; tales and stories of the turbulent times of Border wars . |
| 11 | That same problem is treated in Arguedas 's Deep Rivers , the story of a young boy , Ernesto , who identifies emotionally with the Indians among whom he was brought up and who , on moving to school to receive the education that will equip him to take his place in society , finds himself alienated in the world of the whites . |
| 12 | A young woman with a shopping trolley finds herself caught in the crossfire . |
| 13 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 14 | And yet it was inevitable , given our subject matter , that we should find ourselves caught in the inherent conflict between fact and faith . |
| 15 | The minority who do find themselves embroiled in the criminal justice system are usually involved in petty crime such as shoplifting , casual theft , prostitution and minor public order offences rather than violent crime , and may become frequent offenders — magistrates complain that they see a procession of recidivist minor offenders in whom unemployment , poverty , poor intellect , long-standing emotional and social difficulties and a wide range of mental health problems are compounded . |
| 16 | Rapidly they will find themselves supported in the meetings as well . |
| 17 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 18 | The school had an excellent library , especially in the English section , and I would find myself immersed in the literary essays of T. S. Eliot , I. A. Richards , W. K. Wimsatt , Bradley or Dover Wilson , Maud Bodkin on archetypal patterns or Caroline Spurgeon on Shakespeare 's imagery . |
| 19 | I hope that some of you reading this book will find yourself reflected in the images here . |