Example sentences of "found [pron] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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1 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
2 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
3 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
4 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
5 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |