Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we started work on it , however , we found ourselves rewriting the whole grammar , changing its organization , and introducing much additional material based on the Survey of English Usage . |
| 2 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 3 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 4 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |
| 5 | ‘ Watts is really only sixth in the pecking order up front , but suddenly he found himself playing the biggest game of his life and he did himself proud . ’ |
| 6 | He found himself becoming the emotional prop of the marriage . |
| 7 | He found himself studying the thin man 's hands . |
| 8 | He found himself following the line of marks left in the carpet by the sharp heels of her shoes , caught himself watching the alternate bracing of her calf muscles as she moved to and fro . |
| 9 | The Gulbenkian Foundation was exploring training for the performing arts , and by the middle of the decade the CNAA found itself confronting the complex range of elements of the creative and performing arts in its existing courses , and expressions of interest by institutions proposing specialist courses — notably in drama and in dance and movement . |
| 10 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 11 | To her annoyance , Ronni found herself watching the long tanned fingers and remembering with a start how they had felt against her flesh . |
| 12 | She found herself envying the easy banter between her cousins and aunt , the argumentative informality of mealtimes , the laughter and bustle and hugs . |
| 13 | Robyn leant against the door to the office and found herself experiencing the old , familiar surge of deep annoyance . |
| 14 | Gradually she found herself breathing the clean , laundered smell of his linen shirt , and the warmer , subtler scent of his skin , with a growing and bewildered delight . |
| 15 | Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ? |
| 16 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 17 | This was obviously so in organisations which were expanding and which , as consequence , either found themselves exceeding the agreed limits on the size of their temporary labour forces or felt confident of being able to make commitments to a greater number of workers . |
| 18 | Russian tanks were called out against striking East Germans and then against the ‘ defiance of Poland ’ in 1956 , when the Russian divisions marching on Warsaw almost found themselves fighting the Polish army and the armed workers of the capital . |
| 19 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 20 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 21 | To examine the effects of differentiation on ATF1 protein levels we prepared nuclear extracts from UF9 and differentiated F9 ( DF9 ) cells and compared them using the blotting assay . |
| 22 | He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results . |
| 23 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 24 | Easing across to the driver 's seat , he imagined himself starting the magnificent old car and driving home , there and then , without pausing to ask any more questions . |
| 25 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 26 | The latter choice would have required two ‘ A ’ levels and his involvement with the Birchfield club prevented his joining the armed forces . |
| 27 | I knew one family where the husband hung himself facing the front door so that his body would be the first thing his wife would see as she came in . |
| 28 | Early stage shows saw them recreating the famous Iwo Jima flag-erecting ceremony , while the cover of their great ‘ One Nation Under A Groove ’ album took the American flag to new psychedelic heights , the red , white and blue coloured in all manner of drug-crazed hues . |
| 29 | She did n't voice her thoughts but she immediately saw herself wearing the lime-green dress and the coat with the rose lining . |
| 30 | I saw him driving the other day , tell you that ? |