Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pascoe tried to stop himself stiffening to a seated attention position and could n't quite manage it . |
| 2 | Bernice woke to find herself lying outside the temple . |
| 3 | As Vernon ( 1984 : 8 ) writes of the French case , ‘ in actual practice , managers have found themselves dealing with half-a-dozen ministers or more , each with some capacity to reward or punish ’ . |
| 4 | The long-standing resistance to urban and industrial encroachment continues , but increasingly in recent years the defenders of the rural environment have found themselves fighting on two fronts . |
| 5 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |
| 6 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 7 | These are broad descriptions of how the company wishes to see itself developing over the planning period . |
| 8 | And then , when that clearly had n't worked , Laura had found herself lapsing into a sullen , resentful attitude , defiantly refusing to have anything to do with the beastly old woman . |
| 9 | On the contrary , time and again Ashley had found herself thinking about Vitor 's looks , that purring accent , those first moments when they had first met . |
| 10 | Family health services authorities have found themselves acting with and on behalf of district health authorities wanting to get closer to general practitioners and to understand better what they want purchased . |
| 11 | There was no reason for Jennifer to know and it would probably only upset her , but Rachel did find herself wondering about Jennifer 's previous relationship with David Markham . |