Example sentences of "find [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 2 | ‘ To find me in rollicking good humour , basking in my good fortune ? ’ |
| 3 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 4 | But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations . |
| 5 | So their best event found them in sixth position . |
| 6 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 7 | Then , suddenly , we found ourselves in brilliant sunshine at the southern outskirts of the city , at the foot of the pre-Alps , where the River Adige emerges into the plain . |
| 8 | A team of divers that included myself once found ourselves in such a situation . |
| 9 | This was the situation in which James Oswald of Dunnikier found himself in 1751 , when a chain of patronage was drawn back to him . |
| 10 | It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin , who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family : |
| 11 | Eliot , who lent the circle considerable prestige , found himself in congenial assorted , and in some cases strange , company . |
| 12 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 13 | Dr Runcie , the well known Archbishop , found himself in terrible trouble when he obviously betrayed his feeling that the Argentinians were human brings in the Falklands memorial service . |
| 14 | Piggott , 57 , found himself in all sorts of trouble on Martin Pipe 's 6–4 shot , who came from way back to take third place in the SIS Live Action Claiming Stakes won by Sarah-Clare . |
| 15 | The aircraft was just about to touch down when the pilot found himself in unfamiliar surroundings and opened his throttle in time for his wheels to clear the cliff-edge at the end of the runway . |
| 16 | Before he had decided what to do , Hebbert found himself in full layback position and simply had to carry it through or fall . |
| 17 | Seconds later Talalayev found himself in another inviting position but this time sent the ball skywards and out of danger . |
| 18 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 19 | He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe . |
| 20 | I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose . |
| 21 | Copersucar , the Brazilian sugar giant and Emerson 's chief sponsor , found itself in serious political trouble when it turned out that it was indirectly financing the vigilante groups who kept Sao Paulo in a state of severe political repression during those years . |
| 22 | Do you have any idea how long it 's taken me to find you in this God-forsaken place ? |
| 23 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 24 | How very nice to find one in these dark days . |
| 25 | CCETSW , in a survey of social work qualification courses , found one in nine did not include anything on substance problems , and only one in 20 students was given practice training with specialist alcohol or other drug services . |
| 26 | He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner . |
| 27 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 28 | After winning the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize in 1964 , she found herself in great demand abroad as well as at home , and sang in the first performance of Handel 's Messiah in Israel . |
| 29 | Now the old problem arose again : she found herself in new places and she was more interested in exploring them thoroughly than she was in the chick , even though she was at flying weight . |
| 30 | Gasping , Sabine found herself in other arms , steadied by another body . |