Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I found myself revising with the small colloquia that lay around the grassy precincts of the university . |
| 3 | I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more . |
| 4 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 5 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 6 | I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . |
| 7 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 8 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 9 | I was inclined to laugh until I found myself shuffling along the edge of one levada , eyes fixed to avoid looking at the drop below . |
| 10 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
| 11 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 12 | And much though I appreciate your relentless exhumation of the world 's injustices month by month , I find myself hankering after the wacky old days . |
| 13 | As we dance I find myself staring at the French girl — she has a very pretty face with long , dark hair on to her shoulders , slim build and about 5′ 2″ in height . |
| 14 | I find myself gravitating towards the travellers . |
| 15 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 16 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 17 | ‘ I find myself talking to the baby all the time . |
| 18 | With horror , I felt myself falling through the air . |
| 19 | I had been walking towards a closed door , and by a sudden magic its impenetrable wood became glass , through which I saw myself coming from the other direction , the future . |
| 20 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 21 | It was a brief respite ; when , presently , she took a break and switched on the radio , she found herself listening to the voice of Detective Inspector Clarke who was being interviewed by a reporter . |
| 22 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 23 | When at last Luke released her , she found herself clinging to the kitchen cabinet like a shipwrecked mariner to a rock . |
| 24 | Every time she heard the slightest noise , she found herself glancing towards the archway . |
| 25 | Once again , she found herself thinking about the boy in the picture . |
| 26 | She found herself thinking of the story of Antonio and Louisa . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He pushed her head to his shoulder and she found herself snuggling into the comfort , relaxing as his hand stroked through her hair . |
| 30 | 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 . |