Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly found herself fascinated by him . |
| 2 | By the spring Richard found himself faced by a formidable coalition of enemies . |
| 3 | Similarly , Hardy found herself confronted by " some unanticipated possibilities of rejecting Lit . |
| 4 | And , totally unexpectedly , Lucy found herself moved by a brief surge of affection and pity . |
| 5 | In the ensuing debate Gorbachev found himself assailed by conservatives and radicals alike over his policies and his record . |
| 6 | When making final selections for his book , Denyer found himself afflicted by severe mental block . |
| 7 | Suddenly , Anabelle found herself surrounded by furious , frowning faces . |
| 8 | Fearful at first of the reunion , Katherine found herself charmed by her aunt , who reminisced comically about Jacob 's youthful exploits . |
| 9 | Outside the dressing-room , Sharpe found himself surrounded by anxious staff officers who waited for Wellington . |
| 10 | Gavin keeps himself fit by doing weight training three times a week . |
| 11 | Again Wu Shih found himself pleased by the gesture . |
| 12 | Isobel found herself fascinated by the diversity and challenge of Edouard 's work ; she also quickly found that she could be of help to him . |
| 13 | The Shah saw himself surrounded by enemies . |
| 14 | The highlights , or perhaps the lowlights , have included singer James Hetfield getting himself barbecued by an over-enthusiastic pyro , while the temporary pairing with Guns N' Roses caused further turbulence — or so the press would have us believe . |
| 15 | McLeish found himself shocked by this piece of feminine sharpness and must have registered something because his sergeant blushed . |
| 16 | Though Yeltsin dropped his idea of a party , Grachev found himself targeted by the anti-presidential opposition at a moment of acute crisis . |
| 17 | It was so seldom that Aggie heard herself addressed by her surname that she turned and looked at the nun , but the woman 's eyelids were lowered as if in shame ; then she inclined her head towards the woman sitting behind the desk before turning and closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 18 | Theodora found herself intrigued by Spruce 's attitude . |
| 19 | The diluting of the industrial strategy was a classic Wilsonian operation , as Bernard Donoughue remembers : ‘ I 'm sure that Tony Benn felt himself betrayed by his Prime Minister because the moment the word got around , as it rapidly did in Whitehall — and the Cabinet Office made sure that it got around — that the Prime Minister was not giving his support to Tony Benn , then the civil servants began to back off from their minister . |
| 20 | Jack Jones found himself assailed by Paul Johnson , the ex-editor of the New Statesman who had moved to the far right , as ‘ The Emperor Jones ’ , almost a fourth estate of the realm in himself and the symbol of overweening trade-union power . |
| 21 | In his wanderings through India , Miguel Serrano found himself arrested by a grotesque sight in the streets of Delhi : |
| 22 | Shamlou found himself irritated by his comrade 's gormless manner and unkempt hair . |
| 23 | Kate felt herself gripped by a familiar chill . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , if Qaddafi shows himself limited by this commonplace either-or , he has a decided advantage over West European or American anti-statesmen , who are generally at a loss to say how a society with only families will organize itself : what is to make the linkages among families ? — the market ? — a mafia ? — a telephone company ? |
| 25 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 26 | Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits . |
| 27 | Charlotte found herself intrigued by his handling of some of his colleagues who took views different from his own . |
| 28 | Alan Vessey found himself stuck by the touchline near the corner and , with his back to the Bere Forest goal and with limited options , he succeeded in paddle flicking the ball into the top corner of the net for one of the finest goals scored at Crystal Palace in recent years . |