Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having gained that second term , Lange appointed himself Minister of Education , swapping his foreign affairs portfolio with Russell Marshall , thus signalling a major initiative in education reform . |
| 2 | Confused by the light in her eyes and the constant chattering of their host , Isabel found herself ushered into the house before she could correct the man 's assumption that she was fitzAlan 's lady . |
| 3 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 4 | Isabel found herself staring at Matilda 's kindly face , completely at a loss . |
| 5 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 6 | Thiercelin and Lefevre found themselves received at their billet with almost embarrassing cordiality , the householder , Herr Bauer , and his wife insisting upon catering for their every need , whilst regaling them with complaints of Hapsburg perfidy and the brutality of their Russian allies . |
| 7 | Without meaning to , O found himself staring at them too . |
| 8 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 9 | Lesbians who wished to become parents by artificial insemination found themselves pilloried by the media . |
| 10 | The Londoner found himself staring into the expressionless face of the tall and broad , blond-haired , blue-eyed bouncer . |
| 11 | As he suggested that Richards had been less than sporting , Martin-Jenkins found himself banned from the local airwaves and Public Enemy Number One in Barbados ; since he is renowned as a courteous , generous-spirited chap , it brought home to English fans just how fervently Richards is regarded in the Caribbean , although any English supporter who watched the incident on television would have been hard pushed to disagree with Martin-Jenkins 's assessment of it . |
| 12 | During fierce street fighting around the temple of Myrmidia , the warrior goddess of Estalia , a group of knights found themselves surrounded by the dreaded Black Guard led by Emir Wasr the Cruel . |
| 13 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 14 | Kelly found herself fascinated by him . |
| 15 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
| 16 | From 1982 onwards , Romania 's Western creditors found themselves faced by a baffling response from Bucharest to their offers of further credit . |
| 17 | Nessie found herself reacting as if to the parish priest or the headmaster of the school . |
| 18 | An investigation is under way into what went wrong and the trouble did n't stop there , because back on the pitch Tredworth , full-back , Andy Hill got himself sent for allegedly throwing a punch . |
| 19 | By the spring Richard found himself faced by a formidable coalition of enemies . |
| 20 | Similarly , Hardy found herself confronted by " some unanticipated possibilities of rejecting Lit . |
| 21 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 22 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 23 | On this view industry found itself subordinated to older sections of the upper class both economically and culturally . |
| 24 | At 0300 hours on 30 June 1989 , 1st Battalion the Royal Scots found itself deployed into hides , along with the attached tanks , artillery and engineers that make up the Royal Scots battle group . |
| 25 | David found himself caught between the demands of the receivers on the one hand and his old boss , who stayed on as a consultant . |
| 26 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 27 | Lucy found herself mouthing like a mill worker to make herself understood over the noise , which was louder than any machinery . |
| 28 | And , totally unexpectedly , Lucy found herself moved by a brief surge of affection and pity . |
| 29 | His cheerful smile belied his words and Hari found herself responding to his warmth . |
| 30 | He woke up finally from a nightmare of dismembered bodies and prison guards to find himself bathed in sweat and sobbing uncontrollably . |