Example sentences of "[conj] found [pron] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp .
2 I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three .
3 Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one .
4 He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked .
5 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 .
6 The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant .
7 She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it .
8 His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son .
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