Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . |
| 2 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 3 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 4 | ‘ I find myself talking to the baby all the time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When at last Luke released her , she found herself clinging to the kitchen cabinet like a shipwrecked mariner to a rock . |
| 7 | With unashamed interest , he studied her anxious , freshly scrubbed face , and she found herself responding to the arrival at last of his faint , elusive smile , her limpid eyes softening with warmth because she knew instinctively that he smiled rarely and that she was privileged . |
| 8 | Again she found herself responding to the fever of his passionate desire , and as her own need rose to meet it a small cry of yearning left her — a cry that was accompanied by a totally different cry that echoed from downstairs . |
| 9 | But she found herself talking to the empty room , and the sky outside the window was the untroubled blue of a peaceful July morning . |
| 10 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 11 | She felt herself moving to the side with the others , as the lights were lowered , and a stool placed in the centre of the dance-floor . |
| 12 | The number rang once and then he found himself listening to a conversation . |