Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 2 | The poet gave it to Alice Stopford Green wife of that frail and ‘ singularly attractive ’ priest of St. Philip 's , Stepney , who awoke one day to find himself famous with the publication of his Short History of the English People , one of the most vivid and colourful of histories , first issued in 1874 and later ( 1877–80 ) expanded to four handsome illustrated volumes . |
| 3 | He knew so little of women that he felt as though he had woken up to find himself halfway across a vast mountain in a blizzard without map or rope or compass . |
| 4 | He pulled it off and threw it behind him , revealing himself naked to the waist . |
| 5 | There he sat down with the guards keeping himself warm by the fire . |
| 6 | Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened . |
| 7 | Li Yuan , watching her , found himself spellbound by the song , transfixed by the pain in her face as she sang , and astonished that he had never heard her sing before — that he had never guessed she had these talents . |
| 8 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 9 | He looked round and found himself three-quarters of the way down the bath . |
| 10 | Although making mo' movies is his main focus now , the comedian recently returned to stand-up comedy because , he said , he found himself unhappy without an outlet for his anger at social injustice . |
| 11 | He was , however , arrested on one occasion and , on another , found himself one of a group of men being attacked in a lavatory by a crowd of youths ( Humphreys 1970 ) . |
| 12 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
| 13 | Henry found himself next to the |
| 14 | He switched on his torch and found himself alone in the office . |
| 15 | If Mr Kinnock found himself head of a minority government and decided to ‘ soldier on ’ he might find that Sir Richard Attenborough , that grand old trouper in ‘ Luvvies for Labour ’ , could turn out to be an embarrassment . |
| 16 | During most of April , von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps found itself preoccupied in a see-saw battle for one small feature , the stone quarries at Haudromont . |
| 17 | The Times , which had hitherto kept a dignified silence on such a distasteful subject , pronounced itself well-pleased with the modified outcome . |
| 18 | After the British general election of 1987 the Alliance would no doubt have been gratified to find itself under-represented to a degree no greater than that . |
| 19 | As the man withdrew as silently as he had arrived , Joan was surprised to find herself alone with the young king . |
| 20 | Lee jumped and opened her eyes to find herself alone in the restroom apart from one of the girls who worked there , who was leaning over her and gently shaking her shoulder . |
| 21 | She found herself capable of a courage that startled her . |
| 22 | Her mouth parting ardently beneath his , she began to unbutton his shirt with unsteady fingers , then slithered lower to kiss his bare brown chest , exulting in the thunder of his heart for a moment before she found herself flat on the sofa as Penry slid her jersey over her head , then dispensed with the scrap of satin beneath . |
| 23 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 24 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 25 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 26 | She woke and found herself alone in the bed ; a door closed and she identified the sound . |
| 27 | And besides , she found herself glad of the breathing-space . |
| 28 | Agnes found herself surprised at the change in the gentleman 's voice as he looked at her father and said , ‘ Oh , yes , yes . |
| 29 | She 's so grown up that she shouted herself hoarse through a bloody pantomime not two hours ago . |
| 30 | Mother , who was two or three years older , used to worry herself sick about the way he toiled , going on every hour sent in all weathers , and not stopping to change into dry clothes when the weather was wet . |