Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 32 | He found her in the parlour , doing nothing , seated with her pale skirts spread about her . |
| 33 | He found himself in a city in turmoil , where traditional values had been overturned by Maurice Johnston 's decision to dump Celtic for Rangers . |
| 34 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 35 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 38 | That attitude rose to a crescendo when , at the age of 19 , or was it 20 ? he found himself in a dilemma . |
| 39 | He found himself in a room , at the end of which was a small counter with a piece of netting above it . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 42 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 43 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 44 | And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu . |
| 45 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
| 46 | The same year , he found himself in the company of Mona , who described herself in court as an ‘ apolitical pacifist ’ who spread her huge family wealth in a series of film , TV , stage and property ventures . |
| 47 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 48 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 49 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 50 | Somehow he found himself in the street , walking , although he did not know where . |
| 51 | The benefits of this system can be demonstrated by the example of the trader who carted a crate of whetstones from Craven Arms , or possibly from Stony Stratford , to Wroxeter for a market day , where he found himself in the company of other merchants selling mortaria as well as samian ware from Gaul . |
| 52 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 53 | I suppo I suppose it was cheaper in a way because erm he found himself in the shop a lot more , he could n't afford the staff that he had , he had used to have two people working for him . |
| 54 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 55 | As the town hall clock struck twelve he found himself in an untidy cul-de-sac beneath the railway arches . |
| 56 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 57 | He found him in a comer of the hall , already half-drunk . |
| 58 | In fact , he found him in a state of positive animation , in conversation with Chatterton about the dangers of travelling by public transport . |
| 59 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 60 | He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes . |