Example sentences of "[pron] found [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 6 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 7 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 8 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 9 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 10 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 11 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 12 | By chance , I found myself in the royal apartments , a long , polished gallery where the freshly waxed wood winked in the sunlight and the walls shimmered with the exquisite tapestries hung there . |
| 13 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 14 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
| 15 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 16 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 17 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 18 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 19 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 20 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 21 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 22 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 23 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 24 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 25 | So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand . |
| 26 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 27 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 28 | Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile . |
| 29 | She found herself in the public library . |
| 30 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |