Example sentences of "find herself [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time she had woken from sleep it had been to find herself looking into the blue eyes of a dangerous enemy ; now the enemy was a friend . |
| 2 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 3 | Glad that her limited knowledge of Danish included an apology , she blinked away her tears , raising her eyes to the stranger 's face and freezing as completely as Lot 's wife as she found herself looking into the ice-blue eyes of the man she loved . |
| 4 | A sound had her spinning round and she found herself looking into the astonished eyes of Marie as the girl slid from her bicycle and walked forwards to confront her . |
| 5 | Nikos smiled and said something softly in Greek , and for some reason Lindsey found herself blushing at the sudden contact of Niall 's hand against her arm , but she could n't interpret the look he gave her as they were ushered towards one of the few empty tables overlooking the harbour . |
| 6 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 7 | Unfortunately apart from some of the movies mentioned above , she found herself stuck in the '40s with the unwelcome label of Queen of the B's , because of her frequent roles in Charlie Chan , Mr Moto and Falcon Quickies . |
| 8 | But she found herself talking to the empty room , and the sky outside the window was the untroubled blue of a peaceful July morning . |
| 9 | She found herself bending over the old woman and hissing at her , ‘ If it 's so natural , Great-gran , why did a woman approach me today , the mother of one of the little girls at school , and suggest that my daughter was fantasising about her father being in the bath with her . |
| 10 | Such was her hope and her intent , but once launched upon her exposition she quickly found herself confused by the royal actors of the Art . |
| 11 | The angry words dried up in a strangled gasp , though , as she found herself staring into the dark brown eyes of Julius Landor , her husband . |
| 12 | She was troubled , distracted in meditation , and often found herself staring into the middle distance when the other sisters were chanting Divine Office . |
| 13 | For fleeting seconds Julie found herself staring into the rain-soaked face of the intruder . |
| 14 | Jessamy found herself staring at the powerful set of his shoulders , and remembered all too clearly that the aura of power was n't just an illusion . |
| 15 | As the sound of his car died away she found herself staring at the blank windows of Ivy Cottage across the lane . |
| 16 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 17 | She had doubts about the road but then found herself driving along the grey fortress walls of what she hoped might be the Castello Crocetto . |
| 18 | The tall hedge to her left suddenly gave way to a low brick wall , and she found herself driving past the Red House . |
| 19 | And she found herself smiling at the stark contrast between the two figures — the small passive figure of the elderly servant and the dynamic , vivid figure of the dark-haired man . |
| 20 | Sabine found herself travelling in the same direction , Rohan 's arm firmly round her shoulders . |
| 21 | Maybe it was the abrupt pain of thinking about Tara , or the sudden recollection that this man blending so effortlessly into the family gathering was not to be trusted , but Virginia found herself cutting into the convivial mood and causing a sudden , rather surprised silence . |
| 22 | Emily smiled , her aunt could be a holy terror but tonight she would be on her best behaviour because the élite of the Swansea gentry would be at the Race Ball and Aunt Sophie had not found herself invited into the social circles lately , not since Craig 's arrest . |