Example sentences of "[pron] find [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't speak for everyone , but whenever I find myself eating in a pub it 's usually because raging hunger has overcome the judgement of discriminating palate . |
| 2 | I find myself pausing for a few dots myself before I turn over the page to find where all this is leading . |
| 3 | And much though I appreciate your relentless exhumation of the world 's injustices month by month , I find myself hankering after the wacky old days . |
| 4 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 5 | As we dance I find myself staring at the French girl — she has a very pretty face with long , dark hair on to her shoulders , slim build and about 5′ 2″ in height . |
| 6 | A few discreet phone calls and suddenly I find myself shunted into a siding while the investigation into Ruggiero 's murder passes me by . ’ |
| 7 | I find myself gravitating towards the travellers . |
| 8 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 9 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 10 | ‘ I find myself talking to the baby all the time . |
| 11 | Now what is God saying to me through this passage ? … and you find yourself ruminating on the things you are anxious about , and you start to relate this to the person you are . |
| 12 | Samuel Butler offers his readers a helpful hint : ‘ to know whether you are enjoying a piece of music or not , you must see whether you find yourself looking at the advertisement of Pears soap at the end of the programme ’ . |
| 13 | There 's a light switch near at hand inside that tank and , as you are wearing ear plugs , you find yourself floating in a soundless , dark and warm environment . |
| 14 | If you find yourself yearning for a relationship with someone where the feelings are not mutual , or the other person 's love has died , ask yourself what aspect of you that person represents . |
| 15 | When there is n't enough time to do what must be done , you find yourself papering over the cracks and making stopgap decisions . |
| 16 | Guidance on the use of overtime is helpful to managers who find themselves faced with an immediate staffing problem . |
| 17 | In its revised form it has precisely the same aim : to provide a bridge between those who find themselves divided by the renewal movement . |
| 18 | If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture . |
| 19 | If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field . |
| 20 | We find ourselves swimming against the tide . |
| 21 | We like mixed-ability teaching in principle — but it 's such hard work ( if you 're not going to cop out and use worksheets all the time ) that we find ourselves longing for the good old days of streaming . |
| 22 | On occasion , it might refuse to work at all and we find ourselves longing for the days of youth when it would stand at attention regardless of any identifiable sexual stimulus . |
| 23 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 24 | Busy mothers ma be particularly glad of an opportunity to listen at home of they find themselves tied to the house . |
| 25 | After the humiliating training they find themselves participating in a war they neither care about nor understand . |
| 26 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |