Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 2 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 3 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 4 | then I pedalled myself blue in the face on the Exercise Machine . |
| 5 | ‘ You got yourself involved in an explosion . |
| 6 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 7 | Barbs was one of those not unusual women who consider themselves beautiful in the teeth of the evidence . |
| 8 | You wo n't be the first or last man or woman who gets themself involved in a holiday romance . |
| 9 | You wo n't be the first or last man or woman who gets themselves involved in a holiday romance . |
| 10 | That becomes only too clear if you find yourself hungry in a tropical rain forest . |
| 11 | And talking of police , it 's a dead cert that the very day a Neighbourhood Watch leaflet arrives , detailing all the recent burglaries in your area , is the one day you find yourself alone in the house . |
| 12 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 13 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 14 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |