Example sentences of "find [pron] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced up warily , found nothing but sympathy in my gaze . |
| 2 | Since the other Nematodirus species do not have such critical hatching requirements , a sudden flush of L3 does not occur and although N. filicollis , N. spathiger and N. helvetianus have all been associated with outbreaks of nematodiriasis in sheep and cattle , it is more common to find them in conjunction with the other trichostrongyles . |
| 3 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 4 | It was my practice to arrive a day or two before the opening of a National Course in order to prepare the setting for my part in it ; and Basil usually found me in occupation of his normal workroom , setting up displays . |
| 5 | In contrast it is not difficult to find someone in favour of improving public transport and they agree that the £400 million-plus available to the Scottish Office could be better spent . |
| 6 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 7 | A staunch Tory , Shrewsbury was distressed to find himself at odds with some of his fellow Catholics over Ireland and deplored the support given to Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] |
| 8 | In pursuing these aims , de Gaulle continued to find himself at odds with the British and Americans . |
| 9 | One youth told of emerging from a drunken stupor to find himself in bed with the boy next door . |
| 10 | The new President 's foreign policy is very similar to that of his predecessor , so Mr Major is likely to find himself in accord with the White House on practically every external policy . |
| 11 | J. was blown off his bicycle by the force of one explosion , while cycling from one aircraft to another , and woke up to find himself in hospital with concussion . |
| 12 | Hoomey , having learnt to steer his bus at a steady canter round the railway cinder track and clear two foot of sleepers on each circuit , now found himself with quarter of a mile of galloping grass and a hedgerow at the end of it reinforced with a telegraph pole . |
| 13 | He found himself on loan to the faculty of the National Intelligence Academy ( NIA ) in Fort Lauderdale as director of Video Operations . |
| 14 | Alexander found himself at odds with these famous words of Shakespeare : |
| 15 | The facts of political geography are alone sufficient to suggest that there might be many occasions when the Duke of Aquitaine found himself at odds with the Taillefers and the Lusignans . |
| 16 | But Briggs found himself at odds with colleagues within the NASA scientific establishment . |
| 17 | For reasons beyond his control , the new tsar found himself at war with Persia just as he was coming to terms with the Turks . |
| 18 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 19 | This led to the murder of a shop owner and the next thing that happened , was , Imamu found himself in court on trial for a murder he had not committed . |
| 20 | Bonhoeffer returned to Germany , but found himself in conflict with the mood of the times when identified with Hitler 's arrogance and brutality . |
| 21 | Subsequently he found himself in conflict with the local media when he tried to prevent Radio Vanuatu from reporting the views of his opponents . |
| 22 | Then he found himself in conversation with the Queen and the subject cropped up . |
| 23 | On 17 September , a Thursday , at about ten o'clock in the morning , the Collector found himself in conversation with the Padre . |
| 24 | During the round of visits to VIPs , Sir Patrick , former head of the British Diplomatic Service , found himself in conversation with the country 's head of state , President Elchibey . |
| 25 | Squeezing through a gap in the hedge at the bottom of Vic 's garden , Mungo found himself in front of the shed door which , together with the rest of the building , leaned to the left in its frame . |
| 26 | He found himself in front of the main station . |
| 27 | I think he knew when he truly found himself in front of a work of art . |
| 28 | How far this development in Pissarro 's art depended upon the example of Monet is uncertain but it can be remembered that , after initial scepticism , he commented favourably upon the ‘ Haystacks ’ series and found himself in Rouen in the spring of 1896 , several months after Monet 's canvases of the Cathedral had been exhibited at Durand-Ruel 's gallery . |
| 29 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |
| 30 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |