Example sentences of "she finds [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She finds herself on a dual carriageway , almost a motorway , raised above the level of the neighbouring houses , and with no apparent exits . |
| 2 | In her challenging book Look Me in the Eye , she finds herself rejected by her feminist campaigner friends , with all kinds of excuses about her assumed deteriorating abilities . |
| 3 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 4 | This may continue right through to the toddler stage , when she finds herself still attending to every cry , day and night . |
| 5 | This weekend that fear will be realised as she finds herself isolated from the boys who , as she has so often pointed out , mean everything to her . |
| 6 | She finds herself to be even more mysterious than she knew , rather like her author , who likes to say that ‘ I have another person within , and it is perhaps that person who writes my books ’ . |
| 7 | Having disrupted the balance of her pictorial space by introducing a dynamic diagonal , she finds herself moving into an unknown area . |
| 8 | This was the landscape in which Alina spent her childhood ; he wonders in what kind of landscape she finds herself now , and if her chances of happiness are any greater . |
| 9 | When Jane Austen 's Emma accidentally enters a carriage containing Goethe 's Lotte and Goethe himself ( characters from Thomas Mann 's Lotte in Weimar ) , she finds herself unaccountably thinking and speaking in Lotte 's voice , for she has crossed into another fictional world . |
| 10 | More often than not they turn out to be admirers well versed in her background , and she finds herself answering the sort of urgent questions that ‘ normal people ’ ask when they are introduced to her : how is she settling to her new life ? ; does she miss Low Birk Hatt and her beasts ? ; is she taking care of herself ? ; and so on . |
| 11 | When she prosecutes , she finds herself on trial , her profession equated with sexual provocation , and advertising images used to discredit her . |
| 12 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 13 | But now British Rail has told her it ca n't find room for her 20-inch wheelchair , and unless she finds herself a smaller one she 'll have to make alternative arrangements . |