Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 2 | A few discreet phone calls and suddenly I find myself shunted into a siding while the investigation into Ruggiero 's murder passes me by . ’ |
| 3 | I see myself sprawled in a chair , setting them at ease in a trice , and passing on the acquired wisdom of my life . |
| 4 | She got herself seated at a table for four , ordered a glass of pastis , the local drink , and settled back to wait for her friends . |
| 5 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 6 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 7 | The girls in her class , who had hitherto regarded her as relatively plain , and as a non-starter in the fashion stakes , with no notion of how to twist a school beret or hitch a school skirt , quickly reconsidered their assessment of her , and she found herself elected to an honorary membership of the fastest , smartest slickest coterie . |
| 8 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |
| 9 | Amazingly she found herself treated to a brief smile as Niall , hair concealed beneath the operating cap , glanced briefly in her direction before he bent over the unconscious man once more . |
| 10 | Shannon pulled the door open , her arms flung wide apart in exuberant welcome , but the broad smile froze on her lips as she found herself confronted by a tall , masculine figure . |
| 11 | It is hard to imagine that Leapor would sentimentalize the condition of celibacy , especially if she found herself mocked as an old maid . |
| 12 | Instead , she found herself drawn to a large open window cut into one wall . |
| 13 | Guidance on the use of overtime is helpful to managers who find themselves faced with an immediate staffing problem . |
| 14 | One interesting aspect was that during the war the lines of debate were largely settled by civil servants ; the effective opposition was not a political party , but the Treasury and other departments who saw themselves threatened by a new , upstart Ministry of Town and Country Planning . |
| 15 | But Tolkien 's censure , written from the standpoint of one who had himself hardened in a sentimental devotion to the religion of his boyhood , must not be accepted without qualifications . |
| 16 | This intention was warmly supported by John Whitgift , the Archbishop of Canterbury , who had himself engaged in a spirited controversy with the leading contemporary Puritan theologian Thomas Cartwright . |
| 17 | When the Moderator and the other dignatories came out of the Assembly to cross the road , they found themselves flanked by a crowd of Free Presbyterians shouting anti-ecumenical slogans and waving placards . |
| 18 | Handed from one briskly obsequious waiter to another they found themselves tucked into an upholstered corner , served up with menus and dealt drinks that neither of them was conscious of having ordered . |
| 19 | The Greeks did not react — or rather did not go beyond the surface of Roman life — until they found themselves faced with a first-class power which had defeated the Greek armies of Pyrrhus on the open field . |
| 20 | They found themselves trapped in a little group . |
| 21 | He got himself invited to a large formal dinner party at which one man served the wine and another served all the food , and was tired and irritable , like a wife ; Boy observed all of this very closely . |
| 22 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 23 | When Bream intervened , he found himself locked in a ‘ major battle ’ with Foster . |
| 24 | A veteran of eleven films in the space of seven years by the age of twenty-four , he found himself faced with a terrible problem . |
| 25 | On his way back into the USA , he found himself faced by a stern row of Immigration Officials . |
| 26 | He found himself confronted by a sorrier specimen than himself . |
| 27 | Cast ashore with his retinue in a storm , he found himself surrounded by a ‘ huge army of pagans ’ bent on plunder and murder . |
| 28 | More recently , in the spring of 1982 , it found itself drawn into a disagreement between Birmingham Polytechnic and its city council which proved unwilling to finance the short-fall between the 1982–3 advanced further education pool allocation to the polytechnic and its own estimated budget . |
| 29 | He heard himself described as an undesirable scourge of the neighbourhood by several witnesses . |
| 30 | And he saw himself left with a ridiculous , dead feeling , and — a half-drugged , frightened , tearful , disgusted young girl . |