Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] found [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 10 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 15 | and I found myself in a bare street . |
| 16 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 17 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ) |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 22 | It swung open on well-oiled hinges , and she found herself in a much wilder part of the garden , with tall grass , spreading trees , and a large pond fringed with rushes . |
| 23 | Her new velvet cloak was whisked away , and she found herself in a large red room full of lights and people . |
| 24 | Here the lane ended , and she found herself by the Green , facing the tiny weather-beaten church . |
| 25 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
| 26 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 27 | Without any coherent sense of direction she turned right again and they found themselves in an almost deserted Portobello Road . |
| 28 | Traffic began to peter out and they found themselves in the middle of extensive minefields . |
| 29 | David pushed open one of the french windows and they found themselves in the library . |
| 30 | Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward . |