Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta followed her into a spacious drawing-room , and seated herself in a chair to one side of the tiled fireplace , while Veronica took the chair opposite . |
| 2 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 3 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 4 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 5 | I slipped past the dozing duo , and found myself in a labyrinth of corridors . |
| 6 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 7 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 8 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 9 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 10 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 11 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 12 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 13 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 14 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 15 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 16 | … and found herself in a part of the house she had never seen before . |
| 17 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 18 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 19 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 20 | Cerebral oedema is thought to occur in a large proportion of patients towards the end of the treatment cycle , and manifests itself in a number of neuropsychiatric symptoms . |
| 21 | Well I 'll go and lock myself in a hotel room next week . |
| 22 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 23 | Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a bookshop . |
| 24 | On another occasion , failing to observe the line of the road , I shot straight into a farmyard and buried myself in a haystack . |
| 25 | It spun around , hurling its axe , which whirred over the assassin 's head and buried itself in a luckless thief behind him . |
| 26 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 27 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 28 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 29 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 30 | They should be able to analyse arguments and assess their validity , and to express themselves in a clear , exact and literate way . |