Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LATE IN THE AFTERNOON Frankie found himself standing awkwardly by the kitchen door wearing polished shoes that pinched his toes and a shirt fastened at the neck with a large safety-pin . |
| 2 | A month in the Muelle Deportiva at Las Palmas might seem excessive , but Eevin 's crew , brothers Trevor and Gary Marshall , David McKnight , Jude Docherty and Gary Hill busied themselves cultivating Eevin 's barnacles and partying . |
| 3 | Had Maisie Gammond cut herself shaving too , he wondered ? |
| 4 | Our hood added insult to embarrassment by breaking the poppers on its leading edge one after the other until David Vivian found himself circumnavigating the M25 one evening with one hand on the wheel and another holding the hood to keep it from flying off . |
| 5 | Dr Haritos-Fatouros found herself making friends with most of the torturers she interviewed . |
| 6 | South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval . |
| 7 | For one fleeting second Cassie found herself looking directly into Bella 's eyes . |
| 8 | When the tower walls swung back into focus Isabel found herself clutching a chainmail tunic , quite unaware of the metal links cutting into her palms as she gazed straight into the ice-blue eyes of her husband . |
| 9 | For the first time in several years Eva found herself taking stock of her own life , realising it fell far short of the wonder and beauty of the life of Christ , and recognising she was heading in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For an agonising moment Shannon felt herself losing control , overwhelmed by an urge to fly at Marianne , to assuage her own brutal torment by lashing out as she had done long ago in the school playground , when the jeers and mockery became too much to bear . |
| 12 | Fortunately , when he started work on the book , Mr Paterson found himself viewing his subject in a more favourable light . |
| 13 | Like so many investors , Mr Tyson found himself having to go back to work to ease the financial strain he had hoped to avoid . |
| 14 | He was , and for the sum of £1m , Mr Ames found himself running his own business again . |
| 15 | Mr Berkley found himself responding to the insistent beat . |
| 16 | The adorable kitten had grown into an uninteresting cat ; Lorna Lewis found herself approaching forty , battling against spreading hips , deepening wrinkles , an unlovable daughter and changing times . |
| 17 | Thus it was that Mrs Clamp found herself looking after my father while he insisted on looking after me . |
| 18 | With a busy practice at his surgery at Stroud in Gloucestershire , Dr Gordon Horner finds himself working a fifty hour week . |
| 19 | Wilting under a hail of stones and a hefty dose of the hard stuff , Jimmy Johnstone darted for cover and along with Rangers defender Sandy Jardine found himself hiding in the vicinity of a group of rowing boats . |
| 20 | The first three shows last September really were filmed live , and the temperature in the first club reached 152°F scrambling the digital equipments programming , so that Matt Bianco found themselves miming to a completely different tune . |
| 21 | And so , for the second time in his life , Lawrence Beesley found himself leaving the Titanic just before it was due to go down . |
| 22 | For almost the first time since his reappearance in her life Laura found herself wondering whether she and Ross could have done anything to save their marriage all those years ago . |
| 23 | The whole day had been a great strain and although they had attempted to resolve their differences and clear the air Rachel found herself dreading the prospect of working with David Markham on a permanent basis . |
| 24 | During the short sea crossing to Zeebrugge Luke occupied himself making notes on his meeting of the previous evening , and thankfully Merrill opened the paperback she had brought with her , her favourite author 's latest suspense novel . |
| 25 | So it was that Ms Wainwright found herself manhandling ( if that 's the word ) the seven-by-four polystyrene boards across the frozen Alaskan wastes , often in the teeth of gale force winds and in temperatures down to -40°C . |
| 26 | His strong , even teeth glinted white against the bronze of his skin , and with a peculiar detachment Shannon found herself wondering if the tan had come from a sun-bed or even a bottle . |
| 27 | In his corner Joseph found himself grappling with an overwhelming sense of bewilderment . |
| 28 | Nikos smiled and said something softly in Greek , and for some reason Lindsey found herself blushing at the sudden contact of Niall 's hand against her arm , but she could n't interpret the look he gave her as they were ushered towards one of the few empty tables overlooking the harbour . |
| 29 | For fleeting seconds Julie found herself staring into the rain-soaked face of the intruder . |
| 30 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |