Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together ! |
| 2 | As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October . |
| 3 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 4 | However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners . |
| 5 | In the same year , the tsar involved himself personally in the foundation of the reformist journal Military Miscellany . |
| 6 | It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room . |
| 7 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 8 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 9 | ‘ Not my sister , ’ she drew herself up in the chair . |
| 10 | Anthea drew herself up in the chair and her dark eyes flashed like rapiers at Montgomery . |
| 11 | She had been one of the founder members of the Institutional Management Association in Yorkshire and later involved herself additionally in the Hotel & Catering Institute and always kept in contact with the professional association throughout her career . |
| 12 | There were a great number of these at different points along the Straits , but there were three that found themselves right in the thick of things . |
| 13 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 14 | I found myself aground in the middle of the loch , firmly wedged on one such stump , and the only way out of the problem was to leap overboard and shove . |
| 15 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 16 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 17 | Found myself out in the snow but the snow had turned into cotton wool . |
| 18 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 19 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 20 | I buried myself deeper in the warmth of my own blanket and slept again . |
| 21 | I drove myself on in the certainty that I held the ‘ trump ’ card behind me , quite literally . |
| 22 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 23 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 24 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 25 | Staring at him in confusion , she hauled herself upright in the bed and pushed the pillow behind her . |
| 26 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 27 | Yes , this is the stuff real men are made of and let all those jessie pop stars who holed themselves up in the luxury of four star hotels hang their heads in shame ! |
| 28 | Frank raised himself laboriously in the bed , before subsiding weakly into the pillows . |
| 29 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |
| 30 | While he went in search of the water , she locked herself furiously in the bathroom to don a baggy navy and white striped T-shirt nightdress , and by the time he returned she was safely hidden underneath the printed white bedspread . |