Example sentences of "found herself [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband took her back to Lynne where , unaccountably to the reader , since she had paid all her debts before she left for Jerusalem , she found herself heavily in debt . |
| 2 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 3 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 4 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 5 | Although there was no direct reference to the Rose Bowl , Folly found herself part of a group discussing the hypothetical marketing problems of a small floristry business . |
| 6 | As she slipped into the water beside them Rachel was aware that David had thrown a large orange ball into the pool before jumping in himself , and within seconds she found herself part of a noisy , boisterous game of water hand-ball . |
| 7 | She found herself again in Dunbar castle where , according to stories later defensively circulated by Mary herself , Bothwell raped her and she had to agree to marry him . |
| 8 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 9 | She found herself back with Uncle Albert . |
| 10 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |
| 11 | It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room . |
| 12 | She found herself back in her hotel . |
| 13 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 14 | She also found herself naturally in tune with Laura 's taste and , although her job specification was to oversee the entire design structure for clothes , Laura advised her that she ‘ had been brought in as a flanker to Moira ’ . |
| 15 | As she made her way across to the church steps she found herself suddenly in bright sunlight and away from the crowds . |
| 16 | When she contacted the humanists two years ago , she found herself deeply in sympathy with their values and beliefs . |
| 17 | In fact , she soon found herself out of a job . ’ |
| 18 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |