Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 2 | Li Yuan , watching her , found himself spellbound by the song , transfixed by the pain in her face as she sang , and astonished that he had never heard her sing before — that he had never guessed she had these talents . |
| 3 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
| 4 | He switched on his torch and found himself alone in the office . |
| 5 | The Times , which had hitherto kept a dignified silence on such a distasteful subject , pronounced itself well-pleased with the modified outcome . |
| 6 | Her mouth parting ardently beneath his , she began to unbutton his shirt with unsteady fingers , then slithered lower to kiss his bare brown chest , exulting in the thunder of his heart for a moment before she found herself flat on the sofa as Penry slid her jersey over her head , then dispensed with the scrap of satin beneath . |
| 7 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 8 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 9 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 10 | She woke and found herself alone in the bed ; a door closed and she identified the sound . |
| 11 | And besides , she found herself glad of the breathing-space . |
| 12 | Agnes found herself surprised at the change in the gentleman 's voice as he looked at her father and said , ‘ Oh , yes , yes . |
| 13 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 14 | It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality . |
| 15 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 16 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 17 | On departure , many of the younger guests , deeming themselves insufficiently primed , were about to ‘ go on ’ somewhere , and in the end I found myself alone on the pavement with Eliot . |
| 18 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 19 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |
| 20 | Bénezet slipped into a carrel as near as he could approach unnoticed , and made himself invisible in the shadows . |
| 21 | Cornelius made himself comfy on the stool and sniffed at the coffee pot . |
| 22 | He made himself ill with the worry . |
| 23 | Nearer and nearer the squares came to the picture until there were only four left and Ferdinando made himself ready for the journey to Leghorn , where he would take over Gigia and Oreste from Mr Ogilvy , who continued to Rome , and see one to Florence and the other to Siena . |
| 24 | Corbett slipped another coin into the man 's hand and , while the ferryman made himself comfortable in the shadow of his boat , Corbett began the long arduous climb up the hill . |
| 25 | Duncan unlocked the door and supervised the fuelling from a small bowser as Myeloski made himself comfortable in the rear seat . |
| 26 | The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place . |
| 27 | He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest . |
| 28 | But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate . |
| 29 | He threw her away from him and flung himself flat on the ground as Liartes ' dragon thundered by , leaving another smoking scar across the turf . |
| 30 | Simon de Pury , president of Sotheby 's Switzerland , proclaimed himself delighted with the total , SFr19,743,130 ( £9,015 million ) which exceeded the pre-sale estimate of SFr16,509,700 ( 94% sold ) . |