Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found ourselves in a wide desert street , lined unevenly with flat adobe buildings , the same dun colour as the street and the surrounding desert . |
| 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 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 4 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 5 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 6 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 7 | Mungo found himself in a small , wild garden with a rickety greenhouse whose roof was as green as pond-slime . |
| 8 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 9 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 10 | Later that same year Lord Thurso found himself in a similar predicament in Kelvin Hall , Glasgow . |
| 11 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |
| 12 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |
| 13 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 14 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 15 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 16 | Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles . |
| 17 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 20 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 21 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 22 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 23 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 24 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 25 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 26 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 27 | As the town hall clock struck twelve he found himself in an untidy cul-de-sac beneath the railway arches . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Spelthorne ( Mr. Wilshire ) found himself in an interesting ideological twist on whether function or structure came first . |
| 29 | The defense Department , a major user of At and T services , found itself in a new position yet still charged with statutory requirements regarding national security , emergency preparedness and defence of national interests . |
| 30 | The government found itself in a difficult diplomatic position , given the fierce denial of the allegations by the Belgian authorities . |