Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] in an " in BNC.

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1 Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls .
2 Loretta led the way into the drawing-room and settled herself in an armchair .
3 She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting .
4 I have canvassed the views of my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities who is very European , and he assures me that people who live in the southern part of Spain were totally bemused to wake up one day and find themselves in an invented region called Andalusia with a different Government from than in Madrid .
5 Except at weekends in the summer when the crowds would come and spread themselves in an abundance of activity on the grass .
6 ‘ They went back to Suleiman 's house , ’ said the bearer , gratified , ‘ and barred themselves in an upper room .
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