Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 2 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 3 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 4 | It was in this tense situation that the Labour Party , the pacifists and the Government found themselves manoeuvring for the leadership of the growing public demand for peace . |
| 5 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 6 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
| 7 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 8 | Day 30 Paid himself wages for the month of £320 calculated on the basis of £80 per week for a 40 hr week . |
| 9 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
| 10 | By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ . |
| 11 | Having accepted that she must wear it , Alexandra then set herself to dress for the pleasure of the Rectory children , throwing good taste to the winds and insisting upon hanging herself with all that glittered from the jewel box Aunt Emily had left her , its rose suede depths heaped with treasures from Richard Talbot . |