find oneself vs request

find oneself

verb
  • To find (something) for oneself. 

  • To unexpectedly or unintentionally begin to do or experience something. 

  • To be in a particular state of mind. 

  • To discover oneself to be in a particular place. 

  • To learn, or attempt to learn, what kind of person one is and what one wants in life. 

request

verb
  • To ask for (something). 

  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

noun
  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

  • A formal message requesting something. 

How often have the words find oneself and request occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )