Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta followed her into a spacious drawing-room , and seated herself in a chair to one side of the tiled fireplace , while Veronica took the chair opposite . |
| 2 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 3 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 4 | I slipped past the dozing duo , and found myself in a labyrinth of corridors . |
| 5 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 6 | I went on , confident of my compass , but becoming less so , and found myself in the middle of a disused airfield , among landing markers , gutted buildings and a wrecked radar scanner . |
| 7 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 8 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 9 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 10 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 11 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 12 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 13 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 14 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 15 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 16 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 17 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 18 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 19 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 20 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 21 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 22 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 23 | … and found herself in a part of the house she had never seen before . |
| 24 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 25 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 26 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She opened a door , and found herself in the Bacon room . |
| 29 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 30 | But instead of peace and solitude and a chance to get her emotions under control , she opened the door and found herself in the middle of a nightmare . |