Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening the Under-Secretary and the expatriate managed to call within minutes of each other and we found ourselves playing host to them both . |
| 2 | They chatted about their respective childhoods and , while Patrick had wanted for nothing , he found himself envying Jane 's childhood freedom as the daughter of a groom and maid in service in a large country house just outside London . |
| 3 | It was n't quite true , and Oswin found himself envying Rossmayne his youth and strength . |
| 4 | Ludens found himself watching Marcus , jealously , but with intense curiosity and interest and waiting as for some magisterial dispensation which would mysteriously order his own future , now so completely held in the balance . |
| 5 | He was unaware of any high ‘ g ’ or , indeed , of anything at all , until he found himself regaining consciousness in a near vertical climb , about to tail slide . |
| 6 | He found himself nudging St Ives in the ribs , man to man . |
| 7 | Within weeks of Gallardo 's murder , Valenzuela found himself taking part in Bratti 's execution . |
| 8 | After Eton and a spell as a waiter in the United States , he fell in with the exotic Soho underworld of the day and found himself earning £500 a week , very good money in 1961 . |
| 9 | This was first flown in 1979 , but Bill found himself hanging upside down when the brakes seized on landing , and was reluctant to repeat this so it is now owned by Disney Industries , featuring in a recent film The Rocketeer . |
| 10 | Bobby Hunt was one who accompanied Minton on his weekly tour of the galleries and who found himself reading books he might not otherwise have read . |
| 11 | At Rome in the mid-third century the presbyter Fabian found himself elected bishop because a dove settled on his head . |
| 12 | He found himself wishing Alice were with them then , wishing it quite fiercely . |
| 13 | He found himself writing CREPI ? ? ? in block capitals on the pad in front of him . |
| 14 | Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug . |
| 15 | His feet and his heart pounded faster and faster on the pavement and he found himself racing neck and neck with the tram as it approached the fare stage . |
| 16 | On the ramshackle desolate station at Latimer Road he met them dutifully changing cars , but instead of joining the Safeguards , found himself offering Jed and Abelard , his pet Harris hawk , a home at the School . |
| 17 | They were always tiny points that Willi raised , but useful , and Busacher , over the years , sometimes found himself asking Willi 's opinion on a production . |
| 18 | Alexei found himself recalling events from his childhood — the dimly understood shifts of influence from one family to another , his mother the niece of the Emperor , his father a commoner and always absent on the Imperial service — and almost before he was aware of it his hand had risen to the gold caste mark on his cheek . |
| 19 | Ramsay found himself attacking Sir John Moubray , whom he knew slightly . |
| 20 | Even in the turmoil of his own thoughts , Gazzer found himself registering surprise at what she had just said : ‘ She knows ! ’ he thought . |
| 21 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 22 | She devoted herself to trade unionism , suffrage , and adult education for women , working with the Manchester University Settlement and the Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Workers ' Representation Committee . |
| 23 | Rain caught herself smiling Oliver 's wistful smile , thinking his irresponsible thoughts . |
| 24 | Jay sprawled on the floor , sipped wine , stopped herself grabbing Lucy 's grabbable ankles , held herself back . |
| 25 | For the first time in several years Eva found herself taking stock of her own life , realising it fell far short of the wonder and beauty of the life of Christ , and recognising she was heading in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | Mrs Gooden lost three kiddies and three pounds a day but , instead , found herself cooking lunch for thirty-four , a far more lucrative occupation . |
| 27 | Isobel , who had told nobody about her mother , found herself telling Anna . |
| 28 | Instead she found herself remembering things she had disliked about the flat — the row of closed doors in the long dark passage , the kitchen looking out on to a brick wall , the occasional stiflingly hot summer evening when she had longed to be in the country . |
| 29 | She found herself rearranging things slightly , to perfect the pattern of shadows . |
| 30 | ‘ I came … ’ and suddenly she found herself speaking words she had never thought , ‘ … |