Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we followed the sign , and with some amusement found ourselves confronting a huge mirror ! |
| 2 | When the Cabinet met at noon , Baldwin found himself sharing a defensive corner with Birkenhead . |
| 3 | He had Letty and now found himself dreading a new face to love . |
| 4 | When Culley did the same , he found himself holding a cold roach . |
| 5 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 6 | Yet he found himself treading a familiar road when he played a junkie in Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989 ) . |
| 7 | So it was that Riven found himself attacking a wooden post with a wooden sword that was slippery with mud , and being lectured by the unsmiling Myrcans . |
| 8 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 9 | By a process which almost seemed inevitable the State found itself directing a major part of the country 's industries , and controlling or licensing most of the remainder . |
| 10 | Maggie found herself clutching a young man . |
| 11 | A hand falling on Ace 's shoulder startled her back to reality , and she found herself facing a dripping Benny . |
| 12 | She found herself facing a glass-panelled door , with the luminous dot of a bell set in its frame . |
| 13 | She chose left , descended a further long flight and found herself facing a closed door marked ‘ Fire Exit ’ . |
| 14 | Choosing a left turn , she soon found herself facing a blank door which might , for all she knew , lead to the cuttings library . |
| 15 | But instead , for a dizzying instant , as he wrapped his cloak about her , Isabel found herself savouring a delicious sensation of feeling small and infinitely fragile , enclosed within his arms . |
| 16 | On command , the vans raced to the side of the road , the cordon parted , and the demonstrators found themselves facing a mounted police charge at full gallop . |
| 17 | In Hertfordshire , Wiltshire and Norfolk , for example , a young staff found themselves given a free hand to alter the educational system . |
| 18 | Thus , by the end of the decade , the number of institutions in the public sector concerned with teacher training was substantially reduced , at least fourteen colleges had closed altogether , over sixty had merged with polytechnics and other further education institutions , a few had joined universities , and even those that remained ‘ free-standing ’ , that is untouched by institutional reorganization , found themselves offering a diversified range of courses including teacher training , thereby fundamentally altering their academic role . |
| 19 | Getting out to inspect the damage , I found myself confronting a shocked Alison Kraemer . |
| 20 | I caught myself taking a quick peek in the mirror behind the bar to see if my tie was straight . |
| 21 | He imagined himself driving a tearful Anne and Abigail back to Beryl , then finding Adam a good lawyer . |
| 22 | For the moment she busied herself making a fresh pot of tea , while Karen cleared the dirty plates and made room for their toast and marmalade . |
| 23 | Beauty , of course , and Art , also needed warmth of feeling , there was no getting away from it … and , in passing , he allowed himself to feel a cautious contempt for the greedy merchants of England for whom the Exhibition had been an apotheosis . |
| 24 | He taught himself to become a local government accountant through night schools and correspondence courses . |
| 25 | And then , purely on impulse , Cardiff heard himself ask a crazy question , but a question that was no crazier than the situation he 'd found himself in of late , with people who vanished into and out of walls , the hideous death of four people , three of them his own men and a stalking monstrosity from the pages of a horror comic out there somewhere in the night … not to mention cars that just fell out of the sky . |
| 26 | Jessamy heard herself give a small gasp . |
| 27 | I tugged the ribbon and lifted the lid and heard myself give a harsh shout of anger and rejection and probably shame . |
| 28 | Louise turned sharply to Helen , who felt herself turn a treacherous red . |
| 29 | On Jan. 25 Havel visited Poland , meeting President Wojciech Jaruzelski and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki ( who had himself made a working visit to Prague three days earlier ) , and addressing a joint session of both houses of parliament . |
| 30 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |