Example sentences of "find [pron] at the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
2 | Sundowner time found me at the Clachaig Inn ( JTR either went there or to the Temperance Hotel in Glencoe Village on the edge of Loch Leven ) after twenty-odd miles wandering and walking . |
3 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
4 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
5 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
6 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
7 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
8 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
9 | Three narrow and thoroughly encouraging defeats ( 1–0 , 5–0 , 9–0 ) kicked off the 55/56 season and raffle winner Sid Beamish found himself at the helm . |
10 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
11 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
12 | Although Phil had been slightly reserved in his manner towards her ( Nancy ) , she knew that that was his way and she was enjoying the company of that wiry , small-boned , gently spoken citizen from Sacramento who almost invariably found himself at the back of every queue that ever formed itself . |
13 | As though his feet were programmed he found himself at the Incident Room . |
14 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
15 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
16 | We must now return to the general situation in which 5 Corps found itself at the end of 15 May . |
17 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
18 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
19 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
22 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
23 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
24 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
25 | ‘ He found her at the Borrehus at Falster where Søren , her third husband , manned the ale taps and where she ferried peasants and their cattle across the sound . |
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 | and then er they they found it at the polic , the police station |
28 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
29 | The Smiths , defying the trend of white electro beat , found themselves at the forefront of a new wave of ‘ pick up your guitar ’ bands . |
30 | The arsenic is now on its way elsewhere , nor is the shake-up ending there , as dumps all over Europe have by turns found themselves at the end of the latest ‘ lead ’ . |