Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 2 | Isabel found herself staring at Matilda 's kindly face , completely at a loss . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Without meaning to , O found himself staring at them too . |
| 5 | The Londoner found himself staring into the expressionless face of the tall and broad , blond-haired , blue-eyed bouncer . |
| 6 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
| 7 | Nessie found herself reacting as if to the parish priest or the headmaster of the school . |
| 8 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 9 | Lucy found herself mouthing like a mill worker to make herself understood over the noise , which was louder than any machinery . |
| 10 | His cheerful smile belied his words and Hari found herself responding to his warmth . |
| 11 | Rather than arguing about whether God exists , the theist and the atheist find themselves arguing about whether metaphysical terms have meaning . |
| 12 | I feel like taking a pinger to parties to stop myself talking to anyone 's husband longer than two minutes . |
| 13 | After an hour the ship emerged from the jungle , and the Shermans found themselves gazing across an open alluvial plain dotted with isolated clumps of palm . |
| 14 | Ronni found herself glancing beyond his broad shoulders to the half-shuttered , sumptuously furnished room beyond , with its rug-strewn floor , picture-covered walls and vast , deeply unsettling canopied bed . |
| 15 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 16 | Ruth found herself crouching on the floor , almost fainting ; wondering how she could ever have thought before that Fincara was casting spells . |
| 17 | Benny found herself standing in a smooth-floored entryway that opened on to the docks about ten feet further on . |
| 18 | Even with regard to this episode Margaret showed a sisterly loyalty : I am told that when she and Ivy found themselves staying at the same hotel as Cecilia Ady , Eleanor Jourdain 's chief opponent , ‘ there was a marked coldness ’ . |
| 19 | His English was perfect and Munro found himself warming to him . |
| 20 | As they drew alongside , on the road they had travelled on their way to Tara , Fenella found herself staring into its depths and remembering the ancient Forest Court at its heart … |
| 21 | His hand came out imperiously and Maggie found herself fumbling in her bag like a thoroughly green reporter , anxiously trying to get it into his hand before he snapped his fingers , because she was sure inside that he would do that next . |
| 22 | Topaz found herself praying to a God to whom she did n't quite believe that Andrew would agree and stay with her for a while . |
| 23 | Perhaps I have just become too comfortable with the cheering notion that women are far too busy getting on with their careers and their lives to crucify themselves worrying about ragged cuticles or the size of their ankles . |
| 24 | In the first premonition , Mr Reynolds saw himself standing on the footplate of No 43106 leaving Bridgnorth , smoke-box first , with some covered wagons heading for Bewdley . |
| 25 | She would take it with her , use it as a charm to stop herself weakening in her resolve to uncover the truth , even though it might be unpalatable . |
| 26 | In relation to both Willy and Herodotus , Mira sees herself falling into the role of Cassandra who was cursed by Apollo to have her prophecies ignored because she had refused to yield to his desire . |
| 27 | Theda found herself looking into them and became aware of a tiny flutter of the heart . |
| 28 | By contrast , in the second innings , when Australia 's tailenders had been sent in early on a wet pitch , Darling found himself going in No. 9 with 511 on the board and his side 635 ahead . |
| 29 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 30 | Tellers find themselves using on line real time systems to interrogate accounts . |