Example sentences of "found himself on the " in BNC.

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1 McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed .
2 Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ .
3 So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel !
4 Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group .
5 When the election was won , most handsomely , Pym found himself on the backbenches .
6 Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it .
7 For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry .
8 He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away .
9 The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception .
10 John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research .
11 That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria .
12 He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine .
13 Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 .
14 By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury .
15 Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A .
16 By the beginning of 1957 Franco found himself on the horns of a dilemma : both change and immobilism implied a high degree of risk for his continuation in power .
17 ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard .
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