Example sentences of "[pron] found [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found something from the AIDS one the new Benetton advert , have you seen that ? |
| 2 | I found myself considering the protocol — an absurdity in the face of my determination to flout convention with regard to the funeral arrangements ! |
| 3 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
| 4 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 5 | Stepping over a ridge along the floor , I found myself beside an immense open fireplace , all trace of grate and mantelpiece removed . |
| 6 | On a wet Wednesday in March 1987 , as part of a short survey - not scientifically conducted , but as part of a personal investigation into the cause of alienation among secondary age children — I found myself with a group of seven girls and one boy , between the ages of twelve and fifteen , at the Didcot Health Centre at four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 7 | Again I felt that terrible pain and sickness , but a few seconds later I found myself with the face and body and character of Henry Jekyll once more . |
| 8 | ‘ I found myself on a level with the whole of the French people ; my new companions … were miners , navvies , workers in metal and wood . |
| 9 | IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 . |
| 10 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 11 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 12 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 13 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |
| 14 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 15 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 16 | Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does . |
| 17 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 18 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 20 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 21 | When I tried to place a bet at the Tote at Cheltenham not long ago , I found myself behind a queue of Irish priests . |
| 22 | And yet , alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema : the transition from day to night ; the day for night of the viewing ; the transition back to daylight . |
| 23 | I found myself in a grey council estate that faced the river . |
| 24 | I found myself in a smart town square surrounded by glittering bars , hotels and souvenir shops . |
| 25 | All of a sudden , I found myself in a festive gathering , as I had absent-mindedly gatecrashed an exhibition launch at the Gallery of Photography . |
| 26 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 27 | She barked back , the door slid open wide enough for me to enter and I found myself in a roomful of dames all with rigor mortis of the third-finger-of-the-left-hand . |
| 28 | I found myself in a rough cubicle with a torn curtain hanging to approximately knee-height . |
| 29 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 30 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |