Example sentences of "find [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . )
2 She found them in the Green Room .
3 I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage .
4 The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama .
5 You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him .
6 Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park .
10 Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta .
11 It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture .
12 In Cambridge that autumn he found himself without the steadying influence of Thomas Middleton , and without money .
13 Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 .
14 Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ .
15 That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria .
16 The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception .
17 John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research .
18 Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A .
19 By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury .
20 ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard .
21 However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager .
22 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 .
23 Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold .
24 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 .
25 So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian .
26 Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark .
27 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 .
28 Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion .
29 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 :
30 More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism .
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