Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 2 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 3 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 4 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
| 8 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 9 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 10 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 11 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 12 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 13 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 14 | However , his abiding passion for collecting recipes and formulas kept him experimenting for a further twenty years , perfecting the transfer-printing process . |
| 15 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 16 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 17 | Curiously it was the less forward-looking G major Sonata which in the faster figuration of its flanking movements once or twice had me longing for the greater clarity of a modern grand — likewise its greater ability to sing in the slow movement . |
| 18 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 19 | That 's why I said your going for a thousand ! |