Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 2 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 3 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 4 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 5 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 6 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 7 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 8 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 9 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
| 10 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 11 | With representatives arriving in Blackpool for today 's opening session of the most critical of Conservative conferences for many years , the former Cabinet minister finds himself the focal point for public and party disaffection with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |
| 13 | A freelance musician has found himself the perfect practice room … an empty theatre which he has all to himself . |
| 14 | I find myself the only thing is to change the subject . |
| 15 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |