Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 2 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 3 | I had never spoken to anyone who used a wheelchair before , and we soon found ourselves immersed in a conversation about our mutual ‘ problems ’ . |
| 4 | Twice , when he had run out of ideas , he had driven the little Triumph out of the district to a coffee shop where he was not known , and had sat drinking coffee and talking to the men next to him at the counter , surprised to find himself accepted as a member of the grown-up world . |
| 5 | He returned from a cold and rainy holiday in Switzerland to find himself faced with a mountain of correspondence and other business ( he was receiving in this period something like fifty letters a day , although most of them were handled by Valerie Fletcher ) . |
| 6 | Anybody scheduling an experiment was likely to find himself faced with a lawsuit if he did n't make the environmental impact statement that was required under the National Environmental Policy Act . |
| 7 | ‘ GREGOR SAMSA awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect . ’ |
| 8 | Most of them were senior members of the Institute and Hall could well have been surprised to find himself confronted with a group of men bound together by a considerable degree of common purpose and understanding . |
| 9 | It could be quite disconcerting for the archer whose bow disintegrated to find himself left with a handful of bits and pieces resembling a bundle of firewood . |
| 10 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 11 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 12 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 13 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 14 | A veteran of eleven films in the space of seven years by the age of twenty-four , he found himself faced with a terrible problem . |
| 15 | At the same time as this threat Henry found himself faced with a revolt of a section of the Breton nobility , alarmed by his high-handed treatment of their duchy , and there were already hints of trouble elsewhere in his dominions . |
| 16 | On his way back into the USA , he found himself faced by a stern row of Immigration Officials . |
| 17 | By the spring Richard found himself faced by a formidable coalition of enemies . |
| 18 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 19 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 20 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 21 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 22 | As he handed the child to his mother , the little mouth opened in a yawn and George found himself looking into a pair of slate blue eyes . |
| 23 | When Bream intervened , he found himself locked in a ‘ major battle ’ with Foster . |
| 24 | The number rang once and then he found himself listening to a conversation . |
| 25 | He had n't bothered to inform anyone in the team of this intention , and manager Bob Merriman suddenly found himself plunged into a crisis of seemingly immense proportions . |
| 26 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 27 | Also , at the Gala Night of a Hundred Stars evening at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton , a mime artist came on stage and found himself struggling with a sticky audience . |
| 28 | Eight years later John actually found himself playing on a winning Derry side in an All Ireland minor decider alongside Dermot McNicholl , Damian Cassidy and Don Kelly . |
| 29 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 30 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |