Example sentences of "and find [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They wanted a new start and found one in the form of nearby Hangman 's Wood , owned by the Marley Paving company . |
| 6 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 7 | Then he went to bed , having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 10 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 11 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 12 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 13 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 14 | She opened a door , and found herself in the Bacon room . |
| 15 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 16 | But instead of peace and solitude and a chance to get her emotions under control , she opened the door and found herself in the middle of a nightmare . |
| 17 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 18 | His description was that ‘ it is easy to aim for the front room and find yourself in the kitchen ’ . |
| 19 | When this attempt by pseudo-Britain succeeds , the real British look desperately for evidence of their own national achievement in the first moon landing , and find it in the fact that one of the astronauts is wearing a British watch : ‘ This is a great day for us . |
| 20 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 21 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 22 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |