Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself aground in the middle of the loch , firmly wedged on one such stump , and the only way out of the problem was to leap overboard and shove . |
| 2 | I found myself entirely in agreement with this principle . |
| 3 | I buried myself deeper in the warmth of my own blanket and slept again . |
| 4 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 5 | Tonight , I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury . |
| 6 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 7 | Just for the sake of neatness , I 'd asked Miss Hinkle to set Sam Thompson to work finding out about Mrs. Porter and her big black car when I excused myself early in the interview with her . |
| 8 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 9 | The antipathy to any large-scale popular participation in running public affairs , which shows itself constantly in many more forms than those which I have mentioned here by way of illustration , has been incorporated in several different ways into political science . |
| 10 | He was looking across at her as she seated herself gingerly in the armchair opposite him . |
| 11 | She found herself again in Dunbar castle where , according to stories later defensively circulated by Mary herself , Bothwell raped her and she had to agree to marry him . |
| 12 | Her husband took her back to Lynne where , unaccountably to the reader , since she had paid all her debts before she left for Jerusalem , she found herself heavily in debt . |
| 13 | When she contacted the humanists two years ago , she found herself deeply in sympathy with their values and beliefs . |
| 14 | As she made her way across to the church steps she found herself suddenly in bright sunlight and away from the crowds . |
| 15 | My not being there is hardly likely to lose us the account if Ru — ’ She stopped herself just in time . |
| 16 | She twisted herself sideways in frenzy , screaming still and trying to wrench her wrists free and then he moved both her hands to one of his and gave her a light stinging slap across her cheek . |
| 17 | Staring at him in confusion , she hauled herself upright in the bed and pushed the pillow behind her . |
| 18 | While he went in search of the water , she locked herself furiously in the bathroom to don a baggy navy and white striped T-shirt nightdress , and by the time he returned she was safely hidden underneath the printed white bedspread . |
| 19 | A Masai who acquitted himself well in hand-to-hand fighting in Burma during the Second World War was allowed to keep the samurai sword he captured : ‘ Please do not take this sword away from this soldier ’ , the man 's commanding officer wrote on the wound tag around his neck , ‘ He is a Masai . ’ |
| 20 | She established herself firmly in her parents ' house once again , with the addition of her daughter , and decided that , as she did not appear at her very best when moving due to her injury , she would remain on a sofa all the time . |
| 21 | Cleopatra 's gradual development , from scheming flirt to a woman who finds herself deeply in love , lies at the very heart of the opera . |
| 22 | so that she desired herself alone in order to become androgynous . |
| 23 | She saw herself again in John 's room in Pimlico , washing up at the sink in the corner . |
| 24 | She was hollow eyed , drawn , and seemed very close to exhaustion but she had herself well in hand . |
| 25 | Something about Felipe de Santis made her slightly anxious and she held herself tightly in control . |
| 26 | ‘ We base ourselves mainly in LA because at least over there you can get products done , ’ he says . |
| 27 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 28 | But does n't everybody give himself/herself away in such commonplace situations ? |
| 29 | All three looked up gravely to acknowledge their father 's presence ; but , sensing his mood at once , they buried themselves again in their school work . |
| 30 | The Shah seemed very pleased attitude was changing previously they had urged him to be a purely constitutional monarch ; now perhaps they wanted him to involve himself more in Iranian politics , He thought he must do that — otherwise there would be confusion and chaos . |