Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been the Chinese who engulfed the world in a wide-embracing economic system , we might well have found ourselves using jade rather than gold as a symbol of supreme value . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've also found ourselves looking at other aspects , like eldercare , which is increasingly becoming a problem for people who work . |
| 3 | We have even found ourselves teaching a little bit of linguistics , since some of the comrades seemed interested . |
| 4 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 5 | He says ; Over the last 48 hours we have found ourselves drawing closer together as a group . |
| 6 | It is then that all hell has broken loose and we have found ourselves standing alone in the jungle again . |
| 7 | While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just his paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 . |
| 8 | While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just the paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 . |
| 9 | And afterwards , when she had gone , he had found himself thinking of her . |
| 10 | There had even been times when he 'd found himself imagining her with no clothes on at all — the way he had once seen Peggy Podmore — and felt the same keen desire well up in him . |
| 11 | Shaun 's last years at school had been difficult he 'd even taken a swing at a teacher at one point — and he 'd earned a reputation for the motherless Hammond boys that Wayne had found himself sharing even though he 'd done nothing to earn it . |
| 12 | Miraculously , within a couple of minutes , he 'd found himself speaking to a woman he 'd kissed goodbye in the early May of 1944 — over forty-six years ago ! |
| 13 | He had found himself looking into the infinitely complex growth of stem and grass and leaf and tendril and fine twig that covered the moor in a thick springy upholstery , but also beyond this , through and beside this , into clear darkness . |
| 14 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 15 | Ironically , Morris could well have found himself taking charge of Glamorgan at the start of the season . |
| 16 | But the only one he had found himself wanting to see was this girl . |
| 17 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 18 | For the first time in his life , Bigwig had found himself driven to moderation and prudence . |
| 19 | He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it . |
| 20 | He reminded Dexter of a panic-stricken mole who had suddenly found himself trapped outside his burrow . |
| 21 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 22 | But it is not the first case where an Australasian entrepreneur , hailed as a hero when things are going well , has found himself brought to earth with an ignominious bump when the going gets tough . |
| 23 | He had found himself begging and it made him feel undignified . |
| 24 | Buckmaster , who normally dominated a conversation , had found himself taken aback by the scale Morgan foresaw they would operate on . |
| 25 | Recently he has found himself working late in the office , unpaid overtime , trying to get the damned thing right . |
| 26 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 27 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 28 | To the south , off Java , we could detect where the mouth of the Lampong river lay , where another survivor , a fisherman , had found himself floundering in a furious inrushing sea , and had seized and ridden for miles inland what he had thought was a log , but discovered to be an equally terrified crocodile . |
| 29 | Almost every conjurer who has taken a parti pris in this field has found himself accused of possessing psychic powers . |
| 30 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |