Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 2 | Women 's exemption from these time-geared precepts was the result both of their extensive periods of ritual impurity and of their designated role as closeted homemakers — though of course in making such a statement , we immediately involve ourselves in a greater degree of circularity . |
| 3 | Some way along the journey , we inexplicably found ourselves in a Tesco car park in Derby . |
| 4 | We again found ourselves in a situation where we had to descend because of icing . |
| 5 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 6 | We found ourselves in a wide desert street , lined unevenly with flat adobe buildings , the same dun colour as the street and the surrounding desert . |
| 7 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 8 | We found ourselves in a hall where a masked ball was in progress . |
| 9 | Suddenly at St Aubyn 's we found ourselves in a crowd of seventy boys , nearly all older . |
| 10 | But not this year , but because we found ourselves in a very embarrassing situation with the forty point limit and the fact that we 've got Hans Nielson on ten point three two which you know , is good in one respect , but it erm makes very difficult situations down the bottom end . |
| 11 | I was there in September and our group miserably went up the valley from Mayrhofen in the rain and was even more miserable when we reached the summit to find ourselves in a blizzard . |
| 12 | The Divisional objectives are twofold , one to establish ourselves in a market that only two years ago was completely new to Rentokil , and the other to help our customers and prospects through the current minefield of legislation related to water and air systems . |
| 13 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 14 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 15 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 16 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 17 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 18 | He found himself in a city in turmoil , where traditional values had been overturned by Maurice Johnston 's decision to dump Celtic for Rangers . |
| 19 | Haslam soon found himself in a position of having to make entrepreneurial decisions of staggering proportions . |
| 20 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 21 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 22 | Mungo found himself in a small , wild garden with a rickety greenhouse whose roof was as green as pond-slime . |
| 23 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 24 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 25 | Once in New Zealand , Flanagan , the Home Missionary Advocate and Connexional Evangelist , found himself in a very different world from England . |
| 26 | Cooke recalled how , like everyone else , he was utterly baffled as to how the pollsters could have got it all so wrong — until , a few days later , he found himself in a train sitting opposite a Republican county chairman . |
| 27 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 28 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 29 | That attitude rose to a crescendo when , at the age of 19 , or was it 20 ? he found himself in a dilemma . |
| 30 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |