Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as she silently repeated the words she found herself looking into his sea-deep eyes , wishing she could drown in them . |
| 2 | When she regained consciousness she found herself lying on a large settee in a dimly lit room . |
| 3 | Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator . |
| 4 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 5 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 6 | They are the only reasons you content yourself sitting behind that desk now . |
| 7 | Dorothy had an inspiration as to who they could go as , and for the rest of the evening they amused themselves digging through an old encyclopedia to find pictures from which to copy costumes . |
| 8 | For a moment he found himself thinking of Letty . |
| 9 | On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster , flares a-flap , hair streaming behind him like a curtain . |
| 10 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
| 11 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 12 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 13 | n political affairs they found themselves calling upon , or at least coming to terms with , bourgeois liberals of the more moderate sort and , however nominally , their kind of representative institutions . |
| 14 | But anyway , one day he found himself walking in our street , which was different to how it is now , because not only was The Bar there , which as you know is gone now , but also there were different kinds of people living in that part of town then . |
| 15 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
| 16 | We see ( again , particularly in the public sector ) institutions collectively framing their own mission statements , as they seek to define the particular role they see themselves fulfilling in the national system of higher education . |
| 17 | At the end of a roofless tunnel they found themselves standing in front of a long , high wooden counter . |
| 18 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
| 19 | In that clear air he felt himself settling into his new skin . |
| 20 | Yet while his wife slept one afternoon he found himself looking in cardboard boxes in the attic for blackout curtains which he remembered from the War . |
| 21 | At times he felt himself departing into hallucination . |
| 22 | After the humiliating training they find themselves participating in a war they neither care about nor understand . |
| 23 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 24 | In the end , she catnapped , shaking herself awake every time she felt herself drifting towards a deeper sleep . |
| 25 | For the first time she found herself agreeing with Fen . |
| 26 | That call was an hour and a half in coming , during which time he distracted himself thinking about the shows that were opening in the coming week . |