Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we slowly descended , the mist cleared a little , and we found ourselves amid sheep pastures … ’ wrote the late Louis Littman , a successful businessman , when he and his wife first saw Ashley Chase with a view to buying it . |
| 2 | With still hours to go before the match we had another little walk about , somehow we found ourselves on Park Lane . |
| 3 | 24 W. , we found ourselves in seas literally teeming with the feathered race . |
| 4 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 5 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 6 | A staunch Tory , Shrewsbury was distressed to find himself at odds with some of his fellow Catholics over Ireland and deplored the support given to Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] |
| 7 | In pursuing these aims , de Gaulle continued to find himself at odds with the British and Americans . |
| 8 | One youth told of emerging from a drunken stupor to find himself in bed with the boy next door . |
| 9 | The new President 's foreign policy is very similar to that of his predecessor , so Mr Major is likely to find himself in accord with the White House on practically every external policy . |
| 10 | A driver used to more power and rubber might expect to find himself in trouble if he attempted to maintain his normal pace with the cheapest Fiesta , but such is the confident poise of the car that it offers handling and grip of a far higher order than the tuned-for-economy engine can justify . |
| 11 | J. was blown off his bicycle by the force of one explosion , while cycling from one aircraft to another , and woke up to find himself in hospital with concussion . |
| 12 | Wyllie suddenly found himself without Brewer 's expertise , and Wyllis was incandescent with rage when a medical panel ruled Brewer out of the World Cup campaign . |
| 13 | Hoomey , having learnt to steer his bus at a steady canter round the railway cinder track and clear two foot of sleepers on each circuit , now found himself with quarter of a mile of galloping grass and a hedgerow at the end of it reinforced with a telegraph pole . |
| 14 | RONAN Rafferty found himself with leeway to make up when the second round of the GA European Open began at East Sussex National today . |
| 15 | Soapy walked away from Broadway and soon he found himself on Sixth Avenue . |
| 16 | In 1653 John Lilburne found himself on trial a second time . |
| 17 | He found himself on loan to the faculty of the National Intelligence Academy ( NIA ) in Fort Lauderdale as director of Video Operations . |
| 18 | Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare : |
| 19 | The facts of political geography are alone sufficient to suggest that there might be many occasions when the Duke of Aquitaine found himself at odds with the Taillefers and the Lusignans . |
| 20 | But Briggs found himself at odds with colleagues within the NASA scientific establishment . |
| 21 | One day he found himself at Market Harborough but with no idea where he was going . |
| 22 | By instinct rather than design he found himself at Saint Winifred 's altar , and kneeled to approach her , his creaky knees settling gingerly on the lowest step of her elevated place . |
| 23 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 24 | For reasons beyond his control , the new tsar found himself at war with Persia just as he was coming to terms with the Turks . |
| 25 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 26 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 27 | After they had been served , Rupert found himself under fire again . |
| 28 | Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box . |
| 29 | Speelman , with the black pieces , found himself under pressure after Timman produced a new idea late in a Queen 's Gambit . |
| 30 | On Monday 22 December , George Grimsdale found himself under pressure . |