Example sentences of "found himself [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 2 | When he led 3–1 at the mid-session interval , Hendry looked likely to run away with it , but found himself tied at 3–3 before restoring his lead in the seventh . |
| 3 | The Heffernan intervention occurred back in ‘ 86 when the then 22-year-old McGilligan found himself plucked from virtual obscurity and thrust into the international limelight — yes , international ! |
| 4 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 5 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 6 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 7 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 8 | Shamlou found himself irritated by his comrade 's gormless manner and unkempt hair . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 10 | A veteran of eleven films in the space of seven years by the age of twenty-four , he found himself faced with a terrible problem . |
| 11 | At the same time as this threat Henry found himself faced with a revolt of a section of the Breton nobility , alarmed by his high-handed treatment of their duchy , and there were already hints of trouble elsewhere in his dominions . |
| 12 | On his way back into the USA , he found himself faced by a stern row of Immigration Officials . |
| 13 | By the spring Richard found himself faced by a formidable coalition of enemies . |
| 14 | On the evening of 13 May on top of all his other preoccupations particularly the dangerously weak operational position of his Corps Gen Keightley suddenly found himself threatened by the possibility that within 48 hours Carinthia would be swamped by a further huge mass of some 600,000 surrendered personnel and refugees , without food . |
| 15 | At Newport Morrissey fell victim to innocent crowd over-enthusiasm and found himself dragged into the mob . |
| 16 | Over the years Gambo became quite famous , and found himself dragged from battle to battle and expected to launch his now famous Halfling hot pot into the enemy ranks . |
| 17 | Professionalism in writing was what Yeats resentfully found himself condemned to ; but he did n't like it , and he never pretended to . |
| 18 | He made his worst start for years , found himself jammed in fourth place and then thought his race for the title might be over when a warning light flickered in the cockpit of the 200mph Renault-Williams . |
| 19 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 20 | Again Wu Shih found himself pleased by the gesture . |
| 21 | A bemused Southall found himself cautioned for time-wasting and a few seconds later had to pick the ball out of the net . |
| 22 | It is ironic , however , that Nizan , who had previously denounced the liberal cultural policy of Barbusse , the PCF 's own leading writer , now found himself called upon to woo fellow-travelling bourgeois writers such as Gide in order to gain maximum support for a popular front political and cultural policy suddenly in favour . |
| 23 | Gedge felt Charman 's personality was at odds with the rest of the band and Charman regularly found himself isolated during discussions . |
| 24 | When Bream intervened , he found himself locked in a ‘ major battle ’ with Foster . |
| 25 | John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland . |
| 26 | He had n't bothered to inform anyone in the team of this intention , and manager Bob Merriman suddenly found himself plunged into a crisis of seemingly immense proportions . |
| 27 | As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect . |
| 28 | Rudd designed his monocoque car for 1963 — ‘ it had clever tricks like inboard variable race suspension , but it was a dog ’ — and also he found himself committed by Sir Alfred to building a Le Mans car powered by Rover 's gas turbine . |
| 29 | Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits . |
| 30 | Like many other RAF servicemen he found himself stationed in Lincolnshire and after five years service his Lincolnshire bonds were established and he later moved to the areas into the more peaceful activity of a fitter in the malting industry . |