Example sentences of "[adv] finds [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poitier plays a homicide cop from a big city who inadvertently finds himself caught up in a murder investigation in the town where he is staying . |
| 2 | A way of finding out things not only about going faster and further , but also about the new things the child suddenly finds himself able to do . |
| 3 | He is bound apprentice to Joe , but suddenly finds himself being promised ‘ great expectations ’ from a mysterious benefactor by Mr Jaggers . |
| 4 | So we have a story that may or may not be a story ( it had already appeared in The People back in January , when it raised few eyebrows ) , and a news reporter who suddenly finds himself giving press conferences rather than attending them . |
| 5 | A stockbroker looking at Vermeer 's ‘ Portrait of a Young Woman at the Met ’ suddenly finds himself alongside another woman whose face resembles the painting . |
| 6 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ Internationally , ’ the Jerusalem Post noted , ‘ Israel suddenly finds itself in a glare of warm light as excruciatingly awkward as it is refreshingly flattering — a position of strength based almost entirely on passivity . |
| 8 | His unit is stationed near the Cambodian border , and Chris soon finds himself on a night patrol in the jungle . |
| 9 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 10 | These marginal banks rapidly build up , and the lava soon finds itself channelled into a sort of self-made canal . |
| 11 | The United States thus finds itself in a no-win situation : the more it is seen to be intervening against him , the more it is likely to reinforce his position . |
| 12 | A player who has thrived on goals throughout his career , suddenly no longer finds himself a regular name on the scoresheet . |
| 13 | Identifying and challenging core irrational beliefs in this way becomes a lifelong self-help strategy for the client , who gradually finds himself decreasingly prone to dysfunctional and automatic irrational thinking as RET itself becomes a way of life . |
| 14 | To add to his confusion , he still finds himself sat alone watching television and wondering where all these people are . |
| 15 | Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse . |
| 16 | Now she 's in a Home , May still sees a lot of her family and still finds herself consulted by one of her numerous great-nieces . |
| 17 | Yet she still finds herself full of frustration and anger towards him . |
| 18 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 19 | Banks ' concerns are dark , and no less profound for being seen through the glass of adolescence — for that is the much underrated emotional and cultural condition in which Scotland still finds itself . |
| 20 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 21 | I hope they 'll pay the rent for him when he eventually finds himself out on his ear . ’ |
| 22 | Allan Lamb , the vice-captain , now finds himself short of a quorum for the easily-bored touring club , which usually takes the form of a private knockabout well out of earshot of Micky Stewart . |
| 23 | Mr Wilson now finds himself declaring his belief that it was ‘ the conduct of Sir Johannes and his cronies ’ which discredited the honours system , not the granting of the original accolade . |
| 24 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 25 | Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) . |
| 26 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 27 | But he was already looking ahead to this summer 's Ashes series against Australia and the country v county dilemma in which he now finds himself involved . |
| 28 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 29 | The state formerly reviled for cleaving too closely to Moscow 's line now finds itself berated by the Kremlin as well as the Western world for not following the path of glasnost and perestroika . |
| 30 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |