Example sentences of "found [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found nothing to say about the yearlings and shrank quite sensibly from their forward advances , staying silent and watchful while Nicandra talked and lifted solemn grey eyes to Andrew 's , sure of his entire attention . |
| 2 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 3 | Suddenly Isabel was no longer floating , she was falling instead , the sensation so swift and unexpected that she flung up her hands to save herself , and found them clinging to the source of the heat above her . |
| 4 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 5 | When Ella came in , exactly three minutes later , she found them standing on the hearthrug , hand in hand . |
| 6 | An hour and a half later found me flopped on the floor of the turret in a serious state — my vaunted practicality in utter disarray . |
| 7 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 8 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 9 | The press was too great and we found ourselves trapped by the crowd just in front a massive , black-timbered scaffold . |
| 10 | Panic struck the New York stock market , share values fell dramatically and Hoover found himself presiding over the worst economic depression in the history of the USA . |
| 11 | It was several days later that he found himself rising through the complex of dripping wet catwalks and steps that ran around the Power line . |
| 12 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 13 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 14 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 15 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 16 | It 's a chance for the gifted featherweight to erase the memory of the humiliation suffered in the Barcelona Olympics when he found himself barred from the sport for 12 months . |
| 17 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 18 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 19 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 20 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 21 | On the evening of 13 May on top of all his other preoccupations particularly the dangerously weak operational position of his Corps Gen Keightley suddenly found himself threatened by the possibility that within 48 hours Carinthia would be swamped by a further huge mass of some 600,000 surrendered personnel and refugees , without food . |
| 22 | At Newport Morrissey fell victim to innocent crowd over-enthusiasm and found himself dragged into the mob . |
| 23 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 24 | Wilting under a hail of stones and a hefty dose of the hard stuff , Jimmy Johnstone darted for cover and along with Rangers defender Sandy Jardine found himself hiding in the vicinity of a group of rowing boats . |
| 25 | Again Wu Shih found himself pleased by the gesture . |
| 26 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 27 | Huy found himself looking at the man 's lips alone , and the spittle switching from one to the other , in horrified fascination and to the exclusion of everything else . |
| 28 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 29 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 30 | But instead of the greed-crazed madman he expected , he found himself looking into the round red face of a Sergeant of the Watch . |