Example sentences of "found himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake . |
| 2 | In Cambridge that autumn he found himself without the steadying influence of Thomas Middleton , and without money . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 5 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 6 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 7 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he began , ‘ Robert found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the symbolism in Coleridge 's dream poems — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 9 | One evening in September Daniel found himself with nothing much to do after he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 10 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients . |
| 13 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 14 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 15 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 16 | He got into Cadogan 's early , and found himself with two empty hours in which to get on with his work before anyone else showed up . |
| 17 | RONAN Rafferty found himself with leeway to make up when the second round of the GA European Open began at East Sussex National today . |
| 18 | Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee . |
| 19 | On thirty seven minutes though , Paul Biddle should have made it two nil as he found himself with just the Fairmile goalkeeper to beat , but stupidly played it wide for Brian Marland , but his final pass was poor and Fairmile 's Kevin Shepherd was able to clear the ball from the danger area . |
| 20 | McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed . |
| 21 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 22 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 23 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 24 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 25 | When the election was won , most handsomely , Pym found himself on the backbenches . |
| 26 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 27 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 28 | For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry . |
| 29 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 30 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |