Example sentences of "and find [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down . |
| 2 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 3 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 4 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 5 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 6 | I went on , confident of my compass , but becoming less so , and found myself in the middle of a disused airfield , among landing markers , gutted buildings and a wrecked radar scanner . |
| 7 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 8 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 9 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 10 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 11 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 12 | They turned a corner and found themselves outside the cone shaped building . |
| 13 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 14 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 15 | We scrambled up the track and found ourselves beside the inevitable little mountain railway . |
| 16 | Me and Sam missed our way and found ourselves on the edge of Foxton Mire . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
| 19 | She had got lost , returning to their home in Ambleside Road , Warndon , Worcester , and found herself on the M50 . |
| 20 | She opened a door , and found herself in the Bacon room . |
| 21 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 22 | But instead of peace and solitude and a chance to get her emotions under control , she opened the door and found herself in the middle of a nightmare . |
| 23 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 24 | His description was that ‘ it is easy to aim for the front room and find yourself in the kitchen ’ . |
| 25 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 26 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 27 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 28 | For any of you making the trip to Florida next year and finding yourselves on the Gulf Coast anywhere near St Pete 's beach , a visit to MULLIGAN 'S SUNSET GRILL must be included . |
| 29 | The bubbling notes of a female cuckoo rang out as , rounding a bend and finding ourselves with the sea again in view , we settled to picnic . |
| 30 | Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service . |