Example sentences of "[conj] find [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 2 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 3 | The first duty of any meeting that finds itself without a Chairman is to appoint one . |
| 4 | Better than finding them in a flap and fearing higher rates , as they were a week ago . |
| 5 | There are not many harsher disappointments in county cricket than finding yourself on the outside looking in , as was the case with another Robinson — Phil — at the start of this season following his acrimonious departure from Yorkshire . |
| 6 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 7 | I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down . |
| 8 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 9 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 12 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 13 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 14 | I slipped past the dozing duo , and found myself in a labyrinth of corridors . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At ten past eight that evening , when he ran downstairs to answer his outer doorbell and found her on the doorstep , it was as if he had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 20 | A fine fool she 'd look if Silas returned and found her in a state of emotional upset . |
| 21 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 22 | They wanted a new start and found one in the form of nearby Hangman 's Wood , owned by the Marley Paving company . |
| 23 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 24 | Then he went to bed , having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp . |
| 25 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 26 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 27 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 28 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 29 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 30 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |