Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 2 | We found ourselves in a hall where a masked ball was in progress . |
| 3 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 4 | Suddenly at St Aubyn 's we found ourselves in a crowd of seventy boys , nearly all older . |
| 5 | We again found ourselves in a situation where we had to descend because of icing . |
| 6 | Some way along the journey , we inexplicably found ourselves in a Tesco car park in Derby . |
| 7 | I was there in September and our group miserably went up the valley from Mayrhofen in the rain and was even more miserable when we reached the summit to find ourselves in a blizzard . |
| 8 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 9 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 10 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 11 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 12 | Haslam soon found himself in a position of having to make entrepreneurial decisions of staggering proportions . |
| 13 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 14 | Cooke recalled how , like everyone else , he was utterly baffled as to how the pollsters could have got it all so wrong — until , a few days later , he found himself in a train sitting opposite a Republican county chairman . |
| 15 | Duke William , essentially a warrior of the European mainland , found himself in a quandary : he must either renounce the claim or mount a once-for-all amphibious operation which would stretch his resources to the absolute limits . |
| 16 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 17 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 18 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 19 | That attitude rose to a crescendo when , at the age of 19 , or was it 20 ? he found himself in a dilemma . |
| 20 | This , in turn , suggests that perhaps he found himself in a dilemma — caught between his naturally humane feelings and the logic of his unsentimental , utilitarian theory . |
| 21 | He found himself in a room , at the end of which was a small counter with a piece of netting above it . |
| 22 | The Doctor found himself in a room bordered by folding screens which opened out on to a wide area which was covered by a light wooden roof supported by thin , widely spaced poles . |
| 23 | Charles now found himself in a situation that would often recur : he had important unfinished business in Aquitaine , but his presence was required in Francia . |
| 24 | He found himself in a city in turmoil , where traditional values had been overturned by Maurice Johnston 's decision to dump Celtic for Rangers . |
| 25 | We 'd started with a lobster bisque that was almost certainly Sainsbury 's , but since Sainsbury 's almost certainly make the finest lobster bisque that ever found itself in a can , there can be no complaint . |
| 26 | Instead , BZW found itself in a race against County NatWest , rival offspring of another British clearing bank . |
| 27 | To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control . |
| 28 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 29 | John Williams , prosecuting , said she woke up to find herself in a hotel room with her hands tied behind her back . |
| 30 | A quick discussion and it was agreed ; awakening to find herself in a coffin in that house of death could cause the poor girl to really die of fright . |