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Example sentences for "found itself"

  • It could not overcome Manoury, who was threatening its communications, and on the other hand it found itself powerless to resist the victorious advance of Generals French and de Franchet d'EspĂ©rey.

  • The Fifth British Division, under Sir Charles Fergusson, found itself in a tight place at the confluence of the Vesle and Aisne Rivers, for at that point lay a stretch of flat bottomland exposed to the German fire.

  • This army, however, found itself in the presence of German forces of great strength, consisting of the crack corps of the German army.

  • The neighborhood of Singara was, moreover, ill supplied with water; and a relieving army would probably have soon found itself in difficulties.

  • It passed through a succession of narrow defiles, and on emerging from these the advanced guard found itself face to face with a force of about 1000 Gardes-Mobiles, who had taken up a position in front of La Chartre.

  • After passing through the line of artillery and deploying as well as the limited space permitted, it found itself face to face with fresh and completely formed troops.

  • At that time, one of the Serbian Regiments, which had advanced as far as Shashinshi, found itself isolated, with both flanks exposed.

  • Soviet Russia, from the first months of its existence, found itself deprived of coal, oil, metal, and cotton.

  • So it was in the Ukraine, where the democratic Rada, having sold the Soviet Government to German imperialism, found itself overthrown by the monarchist Skoropadsky.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    civil servant; encourage them; found afterwards; found again; found amongst; found another; found convenient; found guilty; found her; found here; found itself; found many; found means; found more; found native; found nothing; found out; found time; found under; found useful; found very; found water; right wrist; sharp instrument; suit the; transshipment point for illicit