Example sentences of "find himself on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine . |
| 3 | For Hamed , the eldest son of Um Hamed , who found himself on the shelf quite unexpectedly and yet was ready to marry . |
| 4 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 5 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 8 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 9 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |