Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine . |
| 2 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 3 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 4 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 5 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 6 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 7 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 8 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 9 | Linda buried herself in the crowd , exchanging words with this one and that and heading for the bar . |
| 10 | While Mary Ann busied herself in the kitchen , and the uncommunicative Emily disappeared , he took in his surroundings . |
| 11 | Thorfinn lifted himself in the saddle and saw men 's heads turn , and the flash of a spear to be deflected . |
| 12 | Rex adjusted himself in the driving mirror . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Melissa began , on a low note that she could hear becoming steadily more shrill , ‘ that after stabbing Angy , Barney locked himself in the bathroom and left her to die while he calmly washed away her blood ? |
| 14 | The Sheikha settled herself in the dressing room , determined not to be too far away from her son at any time . |
| 15 | If McAlpine finds itself in a position to proceed to Stage II of the IDO registration procedure , i.e. the drawing up and presentation of a Plan of Operations , the Consortium will have to consider the following : |
| 16 | Here Alice Walker finds herself in a typical double bind : the cultural and political conditions of her novel are deracinated ; it becomes immensely popular among white middle-class readers who , unsurprisingly , have read few other black writers ; it is accused of assuaging white guilt , of being charmingly apolitical … |
| 17 | Meredith lost herself in the arrangements , and between them they managed to create a reasonable atmosphere again . |
| 18 | Angie saw herself in the crowd . |
| 19 | As the second show was coming to an end , Lucy sat herself in the makeup chair and made a sullen face and checked her watch frequently , with the idea that Josie should catch her doing it as she finally came in through the door . |
| 20 | To explore the desert , Thesiger immersed himself in the Bedu way of life : he spoke Arabic , dressed and went barefoot they did , and shared the extreme hardship of their existence . |
| 21 | Caitlin poked himself in the chest . |
| 22 | Alexandra surveyed herself in the long glass on the wall . |
| 23 | Cornelius seated himself in an exquisite chair before a mahogany partners ' desk . |
| 24 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 25 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 26 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 27 | Benny found herself in a rock-walled tunnel , with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling at regular intervals . |
| 28 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 29 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
| 30 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |