Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , suddenly , we found ourselves in brilliant sunshine at the southern outskirts of the city , at the foot of the pre-Alps , where the River Adige emerges into the plain . |
| 2 | How about starting with a report on the Stuttgart Classic event where Goran really excelled himself with brilliant wins over Jim Courier and , of course , the out-of-sorts ( surely for the moment only ) , Stefan Edberg . |
| 3 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 4 | Last year , Amnesty mounted a huge campaign against human rights abuses in Morocco , and King Hassan found himself under increasing pressure to make some sort of response . |
| 5 | He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced . |
| 6 | It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin , who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family : |
| 7 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 8 | Dr Runcie , the well known Archbishop , found himself in terrible trouble when he obviously betrayed his feeling that the Argentinians were human brings in the Falklands memorial service . |
| 9 | The aircraft was just about to touch down when the pilot found himself in unfamiliar surroundings and opened his throttle in time for his wheels to clear the cliff-edge at the end of the runway . |
| 10 | Before he had decided what to do , Hebbert found himself in full layback position and simply had to carry it through or fall . |
| 11 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 12 | The patient was shortly afterwards transferred to the National Hospital , but quite soon discharged himself against medical advice , evidently heedless of the fact that the Board had agreed to pay 2s.6d per day for his maintenance there . |
| 13 | In 1877 his father had heard the American evangelist D. L. Moody in London , and had sold his racehorses and devoted himself to personal evangelism . |
| 14 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 15 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 16 | During the Second World War |
| 17 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 18 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 19 | After his retirement in 1974 he quickly involved himself in local community work in the church and will several charities . |
| 20 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 21 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 22 | There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons . |
| 23 | After winning the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize in 1964 , she found herself in great demand abroad as well as at home , and sang in the first performance of Handel 's Messiah in Israel . |
| 24 | Now the old problem arose again : she found herself in new places and she was more interested in exploring them thoroughly than she was in the chick , even though she was at flying weight . |
| 25 | Gasping , Sabine found herself in other arms , steadied by another body . |
| 26 | She stepped through the doors , and found herself in total darkness . |
| 27 | She cradled herself in crossed arms . |
| 28 | She cast herself into heated ovens or boiling cauldrons , was immersed in the freezing waters of a mill-race in winter and hunted by a pack of dogs through thorny thickets . |
| 29 | Mary herself , in captivity in England but forever smuggling out letters and appeals , dealt slyly in shrouded half-promises and suggestions , but made one thing quite clear : she still regarded herself as rightful Queen of Scots and , even towards the end , offered no more than a grudging suggestion of James being ‘ associated ’ with her in ruling the country . |
| 30 | The large noble estates , sometimes helped by injections of finance from the compensation payments for the loss of labour services , transformed themselves into capitalist undertakings . |