Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or heard yourself screaming in a high pitch while arguing fruitlessly with your nearest and dearest ? |
| 2 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 3 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |
| 4 | I did n't bother to switch off the tape , and found myself listening to a religious programme , which suggested that suffering , guilt and penance is the path towards righteousness . |
| 5 | and found myself listening to Gav and Janice . |
| 6 | I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was . |
| 7 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he called , and found himself looking at Nell . |
| 10 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 11 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 12 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 13 | He side-slipped to miss three tightly spiralling planes , and found himself drifting into another cluster . |
| 14 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 15 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 16 | The continuity was then broken when in 1977 he was approached by a head-hunter and asked if he was interested in working in the communications industry , or Fleet Street — ‘ a contradiction in terms ’ , he said — and found himself working under Duke Hussey as commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times . |
| 17 | During the nineteenth century the ulama became increasingly critical of the Wahar dynasty and found themselves acting in effect as guardians of the people against the governments ; but they did not seek to govern themselves . |
| 18 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 19 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 20 | His wife , who was never speechless in those days , entertained the painters , art critics and sculptors more successfully than her husband and found herself slipping into various love affairs which her Arnold , smiling quietly and getting on with his business and his collection , seemed to expect . |
| 21 | When she had done all she could she went to the bathroom and wept for a while and found herself raging against her lodger for being young and clean and free of spirit and unsure because he had never faced death . |
| 22 | Walking over to the nearest window , she peered out and found herself looking across what was unmistakably the Grand Canal . |
| 23 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 24 | But it was not a dream : she heard her own voice making promises to worship João with her body and to be faithful to him unto death ; she felt the ring being pushed onto her finger , and found herself looking into her husband 's melting eyes . |
| 25 | She was suddenly wrenched from the barrier , spun round into tight arms and found herself looking into Alain 's blazing eyes . |
| 26 | Lowering her head , Loretta stepped through the narrow gap , and found herself looking from the shadow of the gateway across a carefully tended lawn to the far side of the college . |
| 27 | Alice ended with a flourish of her bow , held it high in the air and found herself laughing in triumph . |
| 28 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 29 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 30 | She swung round , empty syringe still in her hand , and found herself staring at Robert Sheldrake . |