Example sentences of "[pron] find [pn reflx] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 2 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 3 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 4 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 5 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 6 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 7 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 8 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 9 | So I found myself writing a novel for people like me , primarily for a black audience . |
| 10 | Having come across no obvious Selina lookalike among the ladies , I found myself completing an editorial stress quiz , delete where inapplicable , in which your nicotine and alcohol consumption was set against various stress-donating hardships you might or might not be falling foul of . |
| 11 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 12 | When the path narrowed , we had to proceed in single file , and I found myself leading the way , with my aunt following closely behind and my father behind her . |
| 13 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 14 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 15 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 16 | Getting out to inspect the damage , I found myself confronting a shocked Alison Kraemer . |
| 17 | To my amused horror , I find myself urging the women to try baking buns ( more sugar , more profit ! ) and working out the amounts for a trial run . |
| 18 | Right now I find myself regretting the fact that we have done very little to replace them . |
| 19 | Exactly 11 years later , I find myself doing the same job , this time in the Kremlin . |
| 20 | Consequently I find myself spending a lot of time looking at chairs in museums , shops , exhibitions and other peoples ' houses . |
| 21 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 22 | By 1937 this was helping to bring into the orbit of Left politics an increasing number of younger , better educated middle-class activists , who found themselves confronting a leadership which still belonged to the 1920s intellectually and was socially based on the older industrial areas and occupations . |
| 23 | Then I told her about my Tante Frieda in the Great War , who found herself matching the curtains at an embassy party . |
| 24 | Something in the tone of his voice reached her and she found herself unlocking the door , opening it , looking up at his hard , handsome face with wary eyes . |
| 25 | With every step her energy crackled ; scarcely knowing at first what she said , she found herself reciting the lines from Cymbeline . |
| 26 | She found herself envying the easy banter between her cousins and aunt , the argumentative informality of mealtimes , the laughter and bustle and hugs . |
| 27 | As she floated there , she found herself remembering the sight of Tsu Ma in the water , his chest bared , his hair slicked back ; the presence of his boots planted so solidly on the earth beneath the table ; the deep , warm vibration of his voice . |
| 28 | If she shared no blood tie with Hugh Russell , she found herself debating the morality of claiming any part of his estate at all . |
| 29 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 30 | A hand falling on Ace 's shoulder startled her back to reality , and she found herself facing a dripping Benny . |