Example sentences of "to find [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was there in September and our group miserably went up the valley from Mayrhofen in the rain and was even more miserable when we reached the summit to find ourselves in a blizzard . |
| 2 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 3 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 4 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 5 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 6 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 7 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 8 | If she 's not careful , her poor old taxi is going to find itself off the road for a week . |
| 9 | If so , it would be wrong that the council , because it has performed its statutory duty under the national law to enforce section 47 , was to find itself under a liability in damages as a result of performing that duty . |
| 10 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 11 | The first generation to find itself in the vanguard after the second world war mistrusted opera , felt its connections with the old order too oppressive . |
| 12 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 13 | Enticed by the exotic smells issuing from a nearby many-storeyed building , she crossed the threshold to find herself on the ground floor of a gourmet 's paradise . |
| 14 | John Williams , prosecuting , said she woke up to find herself in a hotel room with her hands tied behind her back . |
| 15 | A quick discussion and it was agreed ; awakening to find herself in a coffin in that house of death could cause the poor girl to really die of fright . |
| 16 | For a fleeting instant she felt as though she had woken to find herself in the lair of a dangerous wild animal . |
| 17 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 18 | In Phil Alden Robinson 's adaptation of W.P.Kinsella 's book , Kevin Costner , Hollywood 's latest superstar , plays a New York boy with a hang-up about his father who has taken his wife ( Amy Madigan ) and daughter off to an Iowan farm to find themselves as a family . |
| 19 | About one person in two can expect to find themselves on an operating table at some time in their lives . |
| 20 | Moreover , poorer clubs were anxious not to find themselves in a wages-auction with richer ones and the FA finally set a £4 a week maximum in 1900 , which was raised in 1909 to £5 for senior professionals with a club . |
| 21 | Business visitors looking for editorial staff seemed bemused to find themselves in the middle of such a busy and , it has to be said , chatty event . |
| 22 | Although the story is probably a fair reflection of the Italians ' unwillingness to find themselves in the middle of an English war , most Englishmen seem to have acknowledged Gloucester 's authority . |
| 23 | Although the story is probably a fair reflection of the Italians ' unwillingness to find themselves in the middle of an English war , most Englishmen seem to have acknowledged Gloucester 's authority . |
| 24 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 25 | I can not say how strange it was , how peculiarly dead I felt , when I awoke to find myself at a distance from my father . |
| 26 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 27 | To find myself in the company of so many eminent , discerning and open-minded independent shopkeepers , affords me pleasure beyond expression . |
| 28 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 29 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 30 | It was one thing to talk tritely about holding life in our hands ; it was a very different matter to find oneself on the point of doing just that . |