Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only in middle life that he ceased self-denigration and began to accuse others of the faults of which he had previously found himself guilty . |
| 2 | He could n't quite believe he had found himself such a beautiful animal . |
| 3 | He was the man who held the drawstrings to the Shah 's own private fortune , amassed at home and abroad since the Shah had found himself penniless in his first exile in 1953 . |
| 4 | And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy . |
| 5 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 6 | When Keith Vaughan left for a holiday in France in July 1948 , he had momentarily found himself alone at Hamilton Terrace and again reported to Edie on his progress . |
| 7 | On sunless Beltanes he had invariably found himself alone there , but never on such a glorious evening as this . |
| 8 | He must have ordered them by telephone when he 'd found himself unable to contact her direct . |
| 9 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 10 | This easily translates into the notion that law is , or ought to be , on their side ; yet like other popular movements , the peace movement has found itself involved with ‘ the law ’ in a complex variety of ways , both passively and actively . |
| 11 | And the IWC has found itself powerless to act to regulate the Faroes hunt because Denmark is claiming that the IWC has no authority over small whales , a view conveniently shared by other countries like Japan and Mexico who hunt or ‘ accidentally' ’ catch dolphins within their exclusive economic fishing zones . |
| 12 | The possibility was alarming , because she had already found herself susceptible to his masculinity . |
| 13 | Against her will Polly had found herself curious about the subject of such intense speculation . |
| 14 | To Lizzie she looked once more like the young girl who had found herself pregnant and did n't want to marry . |
| 15 | Every woman who has found herself alone and lonely knows that sinking feeling when told : ‘ You ought to join something , find a new interest , go to evening classes ’ . |
| 16 | It had been almost a year since she had found herself alone with a man in a bedroom , voluntarily , at least . |
| 17 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 18 | In the peace after the wars , when Lucille had found herself alone in her family 's Norman château , she had met Sharpe and become his lover . |
| 19 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 20 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 21 | Gradually , miraculously , she had found herself free of her past . |
| 22 | ‘ She says not to worry , she 's found herself some work . ’ |
| 23 | With a grin , she turned to follow the noisy , laughing , chattering group up the mountain , and in no time at all had found herself several chums . |
| 24 | I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it . |
| 25 | Leaving such miscommunications aside , though , it is still true to say that we search for confirmation , and I have found myself reluctant to make the telephone call or write the letter of sympathy in case I have heard it wrongly or been given the wrong information . |
| 26 | During Mrs Thatcher 's administration , troops have found themselves involved in five industrial disputes — to operate prisons in 1980/81 , to drive ambulances in 1981 and 1982 , to cover for civil servants during a dispute at the Coulport submarine base in 1981 , and to help with car parking during the rail strike of 1982 . |
| 27 | During Mrs Thatcher 's administration , troops have found themselves involved in five industrial disputes — to operate prisons in 1980/81 , to drive ambulances in 1981 and 1982 , to cover for civil servants during a dispute at the Coulport submarine base in 1981 , and to help with car parking during the rail strike of 1982 . |
| 28 | Arguably too many separate agencies have found themselves involved in working for international co-operation . |
| 29 | And most worrying of all , in Pravda 's view , local party leaders , used to commanding rather than persuading , had found themselves unable to keep control of the situation . |
| 30 | Fixed scales for the rate at which fees would be paid excluded hardly anyone ; as a result parents who were comparatively poor suddenly found themselves liable for fees . |