Example sentences of "[conj] found herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had got lost , returning to their home in Ambleside Road , Warndon , Worcester , and found herself on the M50 . |
| 2 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 3 | In turn she moved aside to allow someone else room at the counter and found herself standing beside Moran . |
| 4 | So she changed direction again and found herself walking down to the prom and out along the beach to Seal Sands Lock . |
| 5 | She was not quick enough to be out of the room before Mrs Eckley was in it and found herself trapped by her between chair and door . |
| 6 | She opened a door , and found herself in the Bacon room . |
| 7 | … and found herself in a part of the house she had never seen before . |
| 8 | She got out of the passage , and found herself somewhere she recognised . |
| 9 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 10 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 11 | One cold , windy day Marion nerved herself to take it down to the clachan to barter for food and wool , and found herself still ignored . |
| 12 | Marion came out of her hut at the noise , straightened , and found herself staring into Lachlan 's eyes . |
| 13 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 14 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 15 | The leading child came on slightly earlier than usual , caught her rope on one of the tassels and found herself going up . |
| 16 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 17 | When she had done all she could she went to the bathroom and wept for a while and found herself raging against her lodger for being young and clean and free of spirit and unsure because he had never faced death . |
| 18 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 19 | In the half-light shining in from the hallway , she went to the dormer window to pull the curtains and found herself looking out directly at Harriet 's cottage opposite . |
| 20 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 21 | Chantal prised herself from D'Arcy 's grasp and found herself eagerly reaching for the receiver . |
| 22 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
| 23 | Matilda went after her and found herself in what seemed to be a dark narrow tunnel . |
| 24 | Once Dawn took it into her head to attempt a sudden flight , jumped up in the air and found herself agonisingly caught , because of the tenderness round her feet under the jesses . |
| 25 | The other teenage boys in the room were obviously heated with drugs and talk of women , for Amal was pounced upon by several boys at once and found herself pinned to the floor . |
| 26 | Alice ended with a flourish of her bow , held it high in the air and found herself laughing in triumph . |
| 27 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 28 | Ahead of them , Artemis got her first view of a fox in full flight , and found herself hesitating . |
| 29 | And she too rose , and found herself saying , " Thank you so much , but if you do n't mind I think I 'd better go and see what 's happened to my face . " |
| 30 | Topaz gave a deep curtsey and found herself raised up by a royal hand . |