Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if we suppose this we shall fall into an infinite regress ; we shall find ourselves looking for a further interpretation . |
| 2 | For example , particles like well , anyway , by the way require some meaning specification in a theory of meaning just like all the other words in English ; but when we come to consider what their meaning is , we shall find ourselves referring to the pragmatic mechanisms that produce implicatures . |
| 3 | If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field . |
| 4 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 5 | Also , at the Gala Night of a Hundred Stars evening at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton , a mime artist came on stage and found himself struggling with a sticky audience . |
| 6 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 7 | In his corner Joseph found himself grappling with an overwhelming sense of bewilderment . |
| 8 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 9 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 10 | Pascoe tried to stop himself stiffening to a seated attention position and could n't quite manage it . |
| 11 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 12 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 13 | Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home . |
| 14 | These tales made quite an impression on me as did the story of Uncle Fred 's eldest son , young Fred as he was known , putting on his age and managing to join the Marines when only sixteen , then found himself serving on the same ship as his father during the great battle — something of a unique record . |
| 15 | Nicholas felt himself flushing despite the bitter day . |
| 16 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 17 | He believes — as any political leader must believe , to keep himself going through the grinding work of electioneering — that victory is out there , but that the voters are making the Tories work hard for it . |
| 18 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 19 | Lord Whitelaw , a figure from the past , alighted from a black Rover , and , turning towards France in order to return the salutations of the mob , found himself staring into the bloodshot eyes of Class War . |
| 20 | The Londoner found himself staring into the expressionless face of the tall and broad , blond-haired , blue-eyed bouncer . |
| 21 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 22 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 23 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 24 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 25 | Eight years later John actually found himself playing on a winning Derry side in an All Ireland minor decider alongside Dermot McNicholl , Damian Cassidy and Don Kelly . |
| 26 | Mr Berkley found himself responding to the insistent beat . |
| 27 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 28 | He found himself sitting in a leaky theatre dressing room , counting the money he was losing every day — the Hollywood stud , playing a small , virginal part in a Feydeau farce . |
| 29 | Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator . |
| 30 | Willie found himself standing in a large field . |