Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 2 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 3 | Wilting under a hail of stones and a hefty dose of the hard stuff , Jimmy Johnstone darted for cover and along with Rangers defender Sandy Jardine found himself hiding in the vicinity of a group of rowing boats . |
| 4 | Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway , his heart tripping frantically , his breathing too fast to be comfortable . |
| 5 | Sabine found herself travelling in the same direction , Rohan 's arm firmly round her shoulders . |
| 6 | Even those men , such as Bert Cooke and John Douglas , who were later critical of ministers becoming professional politicians , found themselves acting in the political arena as they tried to explain to an increasingly interested audience why their spiritual leader was being sent to prison . |
| 7 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 8 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 9 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |
| 10 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 11 | But in the meantime how pleasant it is to find oneself arriving in the evening for the first time in some lively little English market town , where one can forget for a while the noisy onward march of science , and settle down to meditate upon the civilised past . |
| 12 | To come all this way and find herself staying in the house of people with the same name as those she was trying to trace ? |
| 13 | This means that you often find yourself moving in the opposite direction to the one intended which , of course , is extremely annoying . |
| 14 | HARTLEPOOL , Middlesbrough and Sunderland footballers all find themselves plodging in the Med off Majorca this week : there 's nowt so common for fourth division champions Burnley . |
| 15 | Given normal improvement , Dunlop 's attractive filly should again find herself figuring in the shape up . |
| 16 | If theorists attempted this task it is likely that they would find themselves following in the footsteps of the more deterministic elements of Durkheim 's sociology , which have not the aspects they have favoured so far ( Deutscher , 1984 ; Farr , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | If , however , they were unlucky enough to meet wet weather and the harvest extended itself over the stated month , then they might well find themselves working in the fifth week without drawing any extra money . |