Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is back to Portugal these Portugals can go , and tell Dom João to find himself a wife elsewhere . " |
| 2 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 3 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 4 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 5 | Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett is the latest to find himself the subject of a police inquiry after being reported by the gentle , clean-mouthed souls who inhabit Chelsea 's stands for swearing . |
| 6 | For a second time du Guesclin found himself a prisoner of the English , who routed his army . |
| 7 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 8 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |
| 9 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 10 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
| 11 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
| 12 | FOOTBALL fan Andy Meek went to watch his team York City in action yesterday — and found himself the match sponsor . |
| 13 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 14 | In the early 1920s , when the industry was increasingly the preserve of the studios , Goldwyn found himself an outsider , an independent producer in competition with the majors . |
| 15 | They all settled down to eating while Willie , amidst all the chatter and laughter , found himself an object of praise . |
| 16 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 17 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 18 | Wyse Technology found itself a technology playmate in Siemens Nixdorf , having forged a pact some months ago that they 're just getting around to telling us about : Wyse is selling SNI its Intel Corp-based symmetric multi-processing designs and subsystems which the Germans are using in the MX500 superserver line released in Europe and the Far East late last year . |
| 19 | By August that political movement found itself a paper in the Berkeley Barb . |
| 20 | Almost from its first departmental production meeting Doctor Who found itself the target of several wielded axes . |
| 21 | But then , on 12 October , It found itself the target of a takeover . |
| 22 | She was about to find herself a seat when she caught sight of him , in conversation with a rather pretty dark young woman , both of them laughing a lot . |
| 23 | Puzzled and anxious and feeling very flat , after the heady excitement of her flight , Sara picked up her bags and went to find herself a seat on the bus going into London . |
| 24 | She knew the Spanish liking for these little snacks and she stepped down into the street , a little surprised to find herself the focus of several pairs of eyes . |
| 25 | KAY BLAIR was recently shocked to find herself the recipient of high quality service |
| 26 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 27 | ‘ She found herself a job as a telephonist at the GPO , ’ Lily said . |
| 28 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 29 | And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row . |
| 30 | After she had given Miguel time to pay the bills and get away , she retraced her steps and found herself a table at a café in an arcade in one of the ornamental squares by a pretty fountain . |