Example sentences of "[noun sg] i found [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a music lover I found myself in search of the ultimate sound — and I do n't mean loud boomy bass . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 4 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 5 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 6 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 9 | ( For some reason I found myself in Charlbury last week — about 15 miles from where I thought I was , and ought to have been ! ) |
| 10 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 11 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |