Example sentences of "and find [pn reflx] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 2 | I was confused by all these solicitous questions , and found myself telling more lies than I had to . |
| 3 | The following night , I was speaking at a transport dinner in London and found myself sitting two or three down from a general . |
| 4 | ‘ And found yourself confronting two different forms of menace , the power station and the Whistler . ’ |
| 5 | He went to a local pub in the mining village where he was staying to drown his sorrows and found himself sitting next to a stranger who remarked on his dejected demeanour . |
| 6 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 7 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |
| 8 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |