Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 3.00 pm I had my first ‘ informal ’ meeting with the CIEFL staff and students , and found myself addressing an audience of some 40 persons on communicative grammar and semantics . |
| 2 | He looked down at it and found himself reading an account of Mary Connon 's death . |
| 3 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |
| 4 | Jessamy looked at him and found herself noticing the changes in him . |
| 5 | I sat by Toby , and stopped myself asking the questions which were dashing through my head . |
| 6 | She turned away and busied herself straightening the bed . |
| 7 | At some point during the evening , Tallis-Holly went to the crouching wary form of the woman , and watched herself watching the Daurog , and saw the fear and the tiredness in her eyes . |
| 8 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : On an old boat to Luxor Tom Pocock cruises down the Nile and finds himself becoming an Egyptologist in a matter of days |
| 9 | I was supposed to be investigating the latest camcorder craze to sweep America — amateur home porn — but found myself dreading the thought of viewing the tapes . |