Example sentences of "found herself [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth found herself crouching on the floor , almost fainting ; wondering how she could ever have thought before that Fincara was casting spells . |
| 2 | Even as she reassured Emilia once more that her concern was groundless Louisa found herself reflecting on the power of the weak , its hold upon the minds of others . |
| 3 | She found herself pleading on his behalf . |
| 4 | And feeling rather as if she were in a dream , she found herself sitting on a sofa in a quaint old-fashioned parlour , with Roger Kenyon , housebreaker , beside her . |
| 5 | The door closed behind him and Annie found herself sitting on the edge of the bed , her hands between her knees , her eyes on the floor . |
| 6 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 7 | When she regained consciousness she found herself lying on a large settee in a dimly lit room . |
| 8 | When she woke she found herself lying on her bed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She found herself standing on a wide terrace , with steps that led away from the house . |