Example sentences of "[pron] finds [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an establishment which still , rather too easily , defaults to a competitive , male-dominated and achievement-oriented set of attitudes and values which finds itself — as evidence by a plethora of Pembroke route names — in easy sympathy with militarism . |
| 2 | It is not quite the status of an accredited representative , but at least the door will not be shut in the face of any State which finds itself in the position that we and the Germans did in the early 1970s . |
| 3 | Will he share with the House his thoughts about the atmosphere that he thinks will now prevail in Cammell Laird , which finds itself unable to compete for naval orders ? |
| 4 | She finds herself on a dual carriageway , almost a motorway , raised above the level of the neighbouring houses , and with no apparent exits . |
| 5 | In her challenging book Look Me in the Eye , she finds herself rejected by her feminist campaigner friends , with all kinds of excuses about her assumed deteriorating abilities . |
| 6 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 7 | This may continue right through to the toddler stage , when she finds herself still attending to every cry , day and night . |
| 8 | This weekend that fear will be realised as she finds herself isolated from the boys who , as she has so often pointed out , mean everything to her . |
| 9 | She finds herself to be even more mysterious than she knew , rather like her author , who likes to say that ‘ I have another person within , and it is perhaps that person who writes my books ’ . |
| 10 | Having disrupted the balance of her pictorial space by introducing a dynamic diagonal , she finds herself moving into an unknown area . |
| 11 | This was the landscape in which Alina spent her childhood ; he wonders in what kind of landscape she finds herself now , and if her chances of happiness are any greater . |
| 12 | When Jane Austen 's Emma accidentally enters a carriage containing Goethe 's Lotte and Goethe himself ( characters from Thomas Mann 's Lotte in Weimar ) , she finds herself unaccountably thinking and speaking in Lotte 's voice , for she has crossed into another fictional world . |
| 13 | More often than not they turn out to be admirers well versed in her background , and she finds herself answering the sort of urgent questions that ‘ normal people ’ ask when they are introduced to her : how is she settling to her new life ? ; does she miss Low Birk Hatt and her beasts ? ; is she taking care of herself ? ; and so on . |
| 14 | When she prosecutes , she finds herself on trial , her profession equated with sexual provocation , and advertising images used to discredit her . |
| 15 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 16 | But now British Rail has told her it ca n't find room for her 20-inch wheelchair , and unless she finds herself a smaller one she 'll have to make alternative arrangements . |
| 17 | Tracy is a cab driver who finds himself struggling against the power of the city 's corrupt taxi bosses . |
| 18 | The other outstanding performance is by Nicky Henson , who is on first-rate form as the actor who finds himself having to impersonate Alfred in Alfred 's presence . |
| 19 | This time , dad is a casually callous surgeon ( William Hurt ) , who finds himself being operated on within his own hospital . |
| 20 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the law is not particularly kind to the home-owner who finds himself the victim of a negligent surveyor ; in most cases he will not receive full compensation for his loss . |
| 22 | The plays tells the story of Colin , an incorrigible young offender , who finds himself able to express his hatred of injustice , hypocrisy and exploitation through his cross-country running . |
| 23 | Cool World also stars the ever-sulky , strongly quiffed Brad Pitt as Detective Frank Harris , who finds himself entering into the bizarre , mesmeric universe created by Deebs as a solace from his own troubled existence . |
| 24 | A man who finds himself incapable of loving |
| 25 | I hope it wo n't be considered too presumptuous if I offer some advice to the reader who finds himself , perhaps for the first time , left to work on his own . |
| 26 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 27 | If there 's any trouble , it is n't the villager who finds himself before the court , but the Romany . ’ |
| 28 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 29 | Cleopatra 's gradual development , from scheming flirt to a woman who finds herself deeply in love , lies at the very heart of the opera . |
| 30 | A French film maker , François Margolin , has produced a new film , ‘ Mensonges ’ ( ‘ Lies ’ ) , in which Nathalie Baye plays a woman who finds herself pregnant and also seropositive for AIDS — because her lover , played by Didier Sandre , had concealed a homosexual affair . |