Example sentences of "found [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 2 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 3 | The demand for tuition in mathematics fluctuated so Smith often found himself teaching other subjects such as classics , theology and philosophy . |
| 4 | Soon Alexander found himself teaching fellow actors , with similar problems , what he had learned . |
| 5 | October is the cocktail month in Washington ; the British embassy can be throwing three parties a week , and with the Liaison Office 's yen to keep Maxim busy , he inevitably found himself sipping deep-frozen Scotch with a wing-commander from the Office . |
| 6 | He found himself making imploring promises to God then retreated into hating himself and Maxim of course . |
| 7 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 8 | The renowned original intention of the COS was to organize charity , but it soon found itself investigating individual cases , and as a result developed a casework methodology , the fundamentals of which were home-visiting , comprehensive and in-depth interviewing , written records , committee discussions , emphasis on ‘ character ’ as well as circumstances , preservation of family respectability , and , generally applicable , a ‘ carefully specified procedure ’ . |
| 9 | IBM also found itself confronting new alliances , such as DEC and Apple . |
| 10 | She found herself uttering silent prayers , and was rewarded as a small shape came into view from the east . |
| 11 | But it slowed her up considerably , and as time passed she found herself casting furtive glances over her shoulder . |
| 12 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 13 | In fact the canopy is deliberately being kept up whatever the weather for ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ , because the company found it has acoustic properties and projects sound out to the audience . |
| 14 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 15 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 16 | At different times in the week , the teachers found themselves taking different roles . |
| 17 | Speech and Drama teachers found themselves gaining unexpected support from ‘ the authority ’ . |
| 18 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 19 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |
| 20 | It was not entirely by chance that soon afterwards I found myself discussing historic family houses in central London with my 90-year-old friend Monsignor Gilbey . |
| 21 | As he talked , he faded into an outline and I found myself beating folded wings and saying , Oh , quack quack quack quack . |