Example sentences of "[conj] found himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 2 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 3 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 4 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |
| 5 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 6 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 7 | FOOTBALL fan Andy Meek went to watch his team York City in action yesterday — and found himself the match sponsor . |