Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] stand [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator .
2 Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds .
3 Without even realising that he 'd moved , he found himself standing by the door to her room .
4 Willie found himself standing in a large field .
5 Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway , his heart tripping frantically , his breathing too fast to be comfortable .
6 In turn she moved aside to allow someone else room at the counter and found herself standing beside Moran .
7 She found herself standing on top of a translucent bubble set in Moloch 's ice-bound landscape , close to one side of a bowl-shaped depression some fifty metres across .
8 Then darkness enfolded her , and she found herself standing on a solid surface in a shadowed room , staring upwards at the underside of the dimple with a strange sense of having been reborn .
9 She found herself standing on a wide terrace , with steps that led away from the house .
10 Benny found herself standing in a smooth-floored entryway that opened on to the docks about ten feet further on .
11 She felt like someone who suffered from vertigo and suddenly found themselves standing on the edge of a deep abyss .
12 At the end of a roofless tunnel they found themselves standing in front of a long , high wooden counter .
13 But media apart , thousands and thousands of white and Black Americans found themselves standing in front of this indisputably charismatic orator .
14 Thus I found myself standing against my bedroom wall , with a large stone secured to the end of my penis with a length of string .
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