Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " 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 | ‘ This operation in Latvia , ’ I found myself speaking in a whisper , ‘ what is it doing that these machines will do for the rest of Russia ? ’ |
3 | I found myself revising with the small colloquia that lay around the grassy precincts of the university . |
4 | I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
7 | I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Once more , I found myself sympathising with a Punters lady . |
10 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
13 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
14 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
15 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
16 | With horror , I felt myself falling through the air . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | So she found herself staying in a single room at one of the hotels in Monaco and the following morning making her way back to the cottage with a very much subdued André , whose head was feeling all the after-effects of too much wine . |
21 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
22 | At one point , as the ancient taxi manoeuvred a particularly narrow twisting stretch of road , she found herself gazing into a steep-sided gorge . |
23 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
24 | When at last Luke released her , she found herself clinging to the kitchen cabinet like a shipwrecked mariner to a rock . |
25 | Every time she heard the slightest noise , she found herself glancing towards the archway . |
26 | She found herself struggling against a bitter , unreasonable disappointment . |
27 | Once again , she found herself thinking about the boy in the picture . |
28 | She found herself thinking of the story of Antonio and Louisa . |
29 | ‘ Let me take that , ’ said a male voice and turning she found herself looking into a pair of startlingly blue eyes . |
30 | 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 . |