Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 2 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 3 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 4 | The demand for tuition in mathematics fluctuated so Smith often found himself teaching other subjects such as classics , theology and philosophy . |
| 5 | Soon Alexander found himself teaching fellow actors , with similar problems , what he had learned . |
| 6 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 7 | We Christians might want to interpret things differently , yet in his masterpiece , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , the Jesuit nineteenth-century poet , Gerard Manley Hopkins , found himself writing these lines : |
| 8 | October is the cocktail month in Washington ; the British embassy can be throwing three parties a week , and with the Liaison Office 's yen to keep Maxim busy , he inevitably found himself sipping deep-frozen Scotch with a wing-commander from the Office . |
| 9 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 10 | He found himself making imploring promises to God then retreated into hating himself and Maxim of course . |
| 11 | The renowned original intention of the COS was to organize charity , but it soon found itself investigating individual cases , and as a result developed a casework methodology , the fundamentals of which were home-visiting , comprehensive and in-depth interviewing , written records , committee discussions , emphasis on ‘ character ’ as well as circumstances , preservation of family respectability , and , generally applicable , a ‘ carefully specified procedure ’ . |
| 12 | IBM also found itself confronting new alliances , such as DEC and Apple . |
| 13 | She found herself uttering silent prayers , and was rewarded as a small shape came into view from the east . |
| 14 | When at last she lifted her head , she found herself facing three pairs of curious , slightly embarrassed eyes . |
| 15 | But it slowed her up considerably , and as time passed she found herself casting furtive glances over her shoulder . |
| 16 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 17 | She wore nothing beneath other than cami-knickers , but before they followed her dress he nuzzled her graceful neck , and stroked her striking red hair . |
| 18 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 19 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 20 | Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles . |
| 21 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 22 | Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 23 | In an added postscript , Mr Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 24 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 25 | At the peak moment of the 6-day picket of the coke works , 800 police officers found themselves containing 15,000 pickets . |
| 26 | At different times in the week , the teachers found themselves taking different roles . |
| 27 | Speech and Drama teachers found themselves gaining unexpected support from ‘ the authority ’ . |
| 28 | The third qualifying round altered the seeding in such a way that arguably the best sides in the tournament , Namibia and Zimbabwe , found themselves playing each other in the quarter-finals . |
| 29 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 30 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |