Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we followed the sign , and with some amusement found ourselves confronting a huge mirror ! |
| 2 | When we started work on it , however , we found ourselves rewriting the whole grammar , changing its organization , and introducing much additional material based on the Survey of English Usage . |
| 3 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 4 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 5 | When the Cabinet met at noon , Baldwin found himself sharing a defensive corner with Birkenhead . |
| 6 | He had Letty and now found himself dreading a new face to love . |
| 7 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 8 | A disgruntled postman rang up a radio chat show to complain , and found himself spearheading an anti-Florio movement that culminated in 50,000 people marching on the state capitol . |
| 9 | When Culley did the same , he found himself holding a cold roach . |
| 10 | At the age of 17 he found himself manning an anti-aircraft gun aboard the light cruiser , HMS Scylla . |
| 11 | ‘ Watts is really only sixth in the pecking order up front , but suddenly he found himself playing the biggest game of his life and he did himself proud . ’ |
| 12 | He found himself becoming the emotional prop of the marriage . |
| 13 | He found himself studying the thin man 's hands . |
| 14 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 15 | By a desperately ironic twist of fate he found himself confronting an away match at Swindon at the height of the press exposure about his betting . |
| 16 | Yet he found himself treading a familiar road when he played a junkie in Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989 ) . |
| 17 | So it was that Riven found himself attacking a wooden post with a wooden sword that was slippery with mud , and being lectured by the unsmiling Myrcans . |
| 18 | He found himself following the line of marks left in the carpet by the sharp heels of her shoes , caught himself watching the alternate bracing of her calf muscles as she moved to and fro . |
| 19 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 20 | After lobster in Sligo , eaten late and washed down with Macon Villages , they took the southward route to Charlestown , on the landward side of Slieve Gamph , then on to Claremorris and Tuam , because Rory said he did n't trust himself to take the coastal roads , to get too near the sea . |
| 21 | Archer was said to have become especially depressive when starving himself to make the required weight . |
| 22 | The dictatorial character of antiracism , particularly in local government , has itself become an important theme within the discourse of popular racism . |
| 23 | This has itself generated a substantial literature ( see the papers in Elliot 1988 for an overview ) and is nowhere better exemplified than in Openshaw 's geographical analysis machine ( see Ch. 2 ) . |
| 24 | The key factor in the overall course of British economic development has been the particular , even unique , class character of British capitalism in the division between industrial and finance capital which has itself entailed a spatial division between the industrial provinces and the metropolitan hub of finance and commerce . |
| 25 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 26 | Germany found itself facing an expansionist Europe and a booming industry . |
| 27 | Sierra Leone 's 3,000-man army found itself facing an intensifying struggle throughout May against forces of the Liberian rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , despite denials of any involvement by the NPFL leader Charles Taylor [ see also above . |
| 28 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 29 | The government soon found itself taking an ambivalent stance towards the waiguoren ( foreigners ) . |
| 30 | The Gulbenkian Foundation was exploring training for the performing arts , and by the middle of the decade the CNAA found itself confronting the complex range of elements of the creative and performing arts in its existing courses , and expressions of interest by institutions proposing specialist courses — notably in drama and in dance and movement . |