Example sentences of "found [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 2 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 3 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 4 | Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles . |
| 5 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 6 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 7 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 8 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 9 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 10 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 11 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 12 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 13 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 14 | Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile . |
| 15 | She found herself in the public library . |
| 16 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 17 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 18 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 19 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 20 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |
| 21 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 22 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 23 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |
| 24 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 25 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 26 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
| 27 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 28 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 29 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 30 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |