Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 2 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 3 | The press was too great and we found ourselves trapped by the crowd just in front a massive , black-timbered scaffold . |
| 4 | I had never spoken to anyone who used a wheelchair before , and we soon found ourselves immersed in a conversation about our mutual ‘ problems ’ . |
| 5 | He found himself stymied by an old oppo of mine when setting out on one of the Bielefeld Viaduct sorties with Tallboys . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 15 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 16 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 17 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 18 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 20 | A veteran of eleven films in the space of seven years by the age of twenty-four , he found himself faced with a terrible problem . |
| 21 | At the same time as this threat Henry found himself faced with a revolt of a section of the Breton nobility , alarmed by his high-handed treatment of their duchy , and there were already hints of trouble elsewhere in his dominions . |
| 22 | On his way back into the USA , he found himself faced by a stern row of Immigration Officials . |
| 23 | By the spring Richard found himself faced by a formidable coalition of enemies . |
| 24 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At Newport Morrissey fell victim to innocent crowd over-enthusiasm and found himself dragged into the mob . |
| 27 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 30 | Again Wu Shih found himself pleased by the gesture . |