Example sentences of "found [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Despite the cost — from about £15 for 30 minutes — all our testers loved salon back cleansing treatments , and found them well worth the price .
2 Four days later found me out in the garden learning the ‘ Western roll ’ over a beautifully ( if hastily ) made high jump frame .
3 We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city .
4 We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together !
5 In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn .
6 It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation .
7 After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ?
8 As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October .
9 A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree .
10 The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition .
11 However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners .
12 In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months .
13 So I followed you over , and found you here in the cottage .
14 At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework .
15 Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night .
16 It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room .
17 Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square .
18 MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours .
19 Fred breezed into the office , his lined face breaking into a disbelieving grin when he found her already behind the desk .
20 Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day .
21 ‘ She says she found him just outside the ship . ’
22 I found him here on the floor with his neck broken .
23 He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond .
24 As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room .
25 He was developing self-control in the classroom , but found it harder on the playground where it seemed that he was easily influenced by other children to behave badly .
26 We found it down by the Seal .
27 well , somebody found it down by the river just at the back of where they live so it must have been somebody round about
28 With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority .
29 Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong .
30 This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming .
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