Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press was too great and we found ourselves trapped by the crowd just in front a massive , black-timbered scaffold . |
| 2 | From here we descend to the crypt and find ourselves surrounded by the 11C remains of the Romanesque basilica . |
| 3 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 4 | When we then find ourselves confronted by the weary who need sustaining , both in personal conversation and in public worship alike , we have this reservoir to draw on . |
| 5 | Not so the antihero himself paralysed by the disease of hyperconsciousness in abstract Petersburg . |
| 6 | He was amused to find himself surrounded by the dead mackerel of his own catch , and held one aloft , waving and shouting to his crew that if they did n't hoick him out good and quick , there 'd be no free ale in Mother Russell 's that night . |
| 7 | Though Yeltsin dropped his idea of a party , Grachev found himself targeted by the anti-presidential opposition at a moment of acute crisis . |
| 8 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 9 | On the evening of 13 May on top of all his other preoccupations particularly the dangerously weak operational position of his Corps Gen Keightley suddenly found himself threatened by the possibility that within 48 hours Carinthia would be swamped by a further huge mass of some 600,000 surrendered personnel and refugees , without food . |
| 10 | He finds himself evaluated by the correspondingly vague notion of competence . |
| 11 | Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits . |
| 12 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 13 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 14 | Unfortunately Glam was himself bested by the GHOST and he , too , became a surly and violent ‘ walker after death ’ . |
| 15 | Alan Vessey found himself stuck by the touchline near the corner and , with his back to the Bere Forest goal and with limited options , he succeeded in paddle flicking the ball into the top corner of the net for one of the finest goals scored at Crystal Palace in recent years . |
| 16 | As a result of this he was labelled as a diehard and a bigot , when he actually distrusted the diehards and was himself distrusted by the bigots . |
| 17 | A man may show an interest in a woman , simply wanting to try out his style , and then find himself ensnared by the admiration and attention she beams at him . |
| 18 | Brian Whitaker , a former editor of the Sunday Times ‘ Insight ’ team who was responsible for much of the last-minute layout , found himself interrupted by the constant political hubbub . |
| 19 | ‘ Craig is my first-born son and I love him dearly , ’ she paused , ‘ but , after what he 's done , Craig must consider himself disowned by the entire Grenfell family . ’ |
| 20 | The Council of Ministers is appointed by the Prime Minister ( himself appointed by the President ) on the President 's request . |
| 21 | A shopkeeper who refused to sell constables cigarettes at a discount and complained of the illegal sale of similar goods to the public from their own trading organization , the Police Guild , could find himself summonsed by the same officers for employing children under age ( which in turn gave rise to the banning of the Police Guild by the Watch Committee ) . |
| 22 | Solowka had a shock when he found himself berated by The Fall 's maverick frontman for having the audacity to share the same dressing room . |
| 23 | Without even realising that he 'd moved , he found himself standing by the door to her room . |
| 24 | Ever a proponent of parliamentary freedom of speech , in 1621 Alford protested against the ‘ eyes over him to observe ’ , but refused to have himself cleared by the House at the end of the session : ‘ God forbid that snares should be laid for mens words … |
| 25 | Explaining this popularity is not difficult : Edmund was himself killed by the Danes , and it was perhaps only natural that veneration for him should grow in the area which had formed his kingdom , and seen a great deal of the renewed conflict between Danes and English . |
| 26 | Again Wu Shih found himself pleased by the gesture . |
| 27 | Back inside the house , he found himself confronted by the gin-filled man . |
| 28 | Then there are the personal perils for breaches of companies legislation which are not only manifold but , supplemented by the Insolvency Act and , where relevant , the Financial Services Act itself amended by the 1989 Companies Act , threaten to catch the unwary at every turn . |
| 29 | The Royal Family , just like the Labour Party , finds itself spooked by the Zeitgeist . |
| 30 | And there has been some encouragement from within industry , reflected , for example in Business in the Community ( BiC ) , founded in 1982 and sponsored by firms such as IBM and Marks and Spencer as well as supported by the DoE and the Manpower Services Commission ( later the Training Commission , itself absorbed by the Department of Employment in 1988 ) . |