Example sentences of "found [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state .
2 He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop .
3 I found them in an old file .
4 And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry .
5 Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together .
6 Beyond the 6th of October bridge we found ourselves amongst an agitated crowd .
7 We found ourselves in a wide desert street , lined unevenly with flat adobe buildings , the same dun colour as the street and the surrounding desert .
8 I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back .
9 Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start .
10 One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising .
11 RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project .
12 At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop .
13 Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss …
14 The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance .
15 Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one .
16 When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee .
17 Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley .
18 Mungo found himself in a small , wild garden with a rickety greenhouse whose roof was as green as pond-slime .
19 Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road .
20 He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen .
21 Later that same year Lord Thurso found himself in a similar predicament in Kelvin Hall , Glasgow .
22 Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end .
23 But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly .
24 The boy found himself in a peculiar position .
25 Charles also found himself in a difficult position .
26 Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world .
27 Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position .
28 As the town hall clock struck twelve he found himself in an untidy cul-de-sac beneath the railway arches .
29 The hon. Member for Spelthorne ( Mr. Wilshire ) found himself in an interesting ideological twist on whether function or structure came first .
30 Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly .
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