Example sentences of "[pron] found [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I came out of the orphanage to go and live with my mother and I found myself one of the family of six living in one room , the house was a four roomed house plus a scullery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I found myself alone with a man the skin of whose face had the texture of hide , tanned the colour of stout . |
| 6 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And before very long you found yourself involved with a project which looked as if it was actually going to take over your life . |
| 9 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She found herself capable of a courage that startled her . |
| 12 | And besides , she found herself glad of the breathing-space . |
| 13 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 14 | Although making mo' movies is his main focus now , the comedian recently returned to stand-up comedy because , he said , he found himself unhappy without an outlet for his anger at social injustice . |
| 15 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 16 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |