Example sentences of "find ourselves [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We scrambled up the track and found ourselves beside the inevitable little mountain railway . |
| 2 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 3 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 4 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 5 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 6 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 7 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 9 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 10 | Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp . |
| 11 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 12 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 13 | I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side . |