Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] find [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If something unexpected happens during an inner journey — perhaps one of your guides will appear when you were expecting your inner child , or you find yourself in a cave rather than on a riverbank — go with your own experience .
2 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 .
3 ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’
4 ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette
5 I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back .
6 ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly .
7 He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning .
8 Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August .
9 No sooner are we out of Eden than we find ourselves in a field stained with a brother 's blood ( 4.1–16 ) .
10 Another potential problem for patients is that they find themselves in the role of information-giver , and it is often information of a very personal nature .
11 So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands .
12 He did n't believe it up to the moment that he found himself outside a half-house that had once been graced by a classical loggia .
13 The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position .
14 I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea .
15 Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor .
16 And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience .
17 Then , as my breath has now returned to me and I find myself in the company of my bestest friend , it is my considered opinion that we proceed together upon the epic journey and face as one whatever adventures lie before . ’
18 Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her .
19 Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions .
20 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 .
21 ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’
22 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 .
23 I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band .
24 and I found myself in a bare street .
25 The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke .
26 The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me .
27 I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed .
28 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 . )
29 Personally , I have a basic level of awareness which I raise if I find myself in a place or situation which could prove a problem .
30 Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse .
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