Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 2 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 3 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 6 | But if you saw him running for the bus , he would go blue in the face and collapse on to the bus . |
| 7 | Then we had them voting for the imposition of VAT on heating fuels , a cruel tax on the ordinary person as well as the pensioner . |