Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] found [pron] [prep] the " 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 heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly . |
3 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
7 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
10 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
11 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . ) |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Here the lane ended , and she found herself by the Green , facing the tiny weather-beaten church . |
17 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Traffic began to peter out and they found themselves in the middle of extensive minefields . |
20 | David pushed open one of the french windows and they found themselves in the library . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | And they found him on the floor ? |
23 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
24 | And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu . |
25 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
26 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
27 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
28 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
29 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
30 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |