Example sentences of "[pers pn] found [pn reflx] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 2 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 3 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 4 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 5 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 6 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 7 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 8 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 9 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 10 | When the path narrowed , we had to proceed in single file , and I found myself leading the way , with my aunt following closely behind and my father behind her . |
| 11 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 12 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 13 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 14 | Something in the tone of his voice reached her and she found herself unlocking the door , opening it , looking up at his hard , handsome face with wary eyes . |
| 15 | With every step her energy crackled ; scarcely knowing at first what she said , she found herself reciting the lines from Cymbeline . |
| 16 | She found herself envying the easy banter between her cousins and aunt , the argumentative informality of mealtimes , the laughter and bustle and hugs . |
| 17 | As she floated there , she found herself remembering the sight of Tsu Ma in the water , his chest bared , his hair slicked back ; the presence of his boots planted so solidly on the earth beneath the table ; the deep , warm vibration of his voice . |
| 18 | If she shared no blood tie with Hugh Russell , she found herself debating the morality of claiming any part of his estate at all . |
| 19 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 20 | Turning around , she found herself facing the dark , handsome-looking woman who 'd arrived with Ross Aldridge and whom Diane assumed to be his wife . |
| 21 | She found herself enjoying the sight of his embarrassment and frantic need to buy thinking time . |
| 22 | There was neither joy nor peace in the house and she found herself wishing the time away until it should be March . |
| 23 | Something snapped inside her and she found herself grabbing the mutton and wresting the plate , with what was left of the uncut joint still on it , and running with it from his crazed presence . |
| 24 | Miss Grimes had certainly been glad of the presents but she had not really seemed as destitute and lonely as Ianthe had expected — perhaps secretly even hoped — and she found herself resenting the way she had taken the violets . |
| 25 | Nevertheless she found herself giving the details of her history to a woman over the telephone who fortunately spoke English , along , she was told , with five other languages . |
| 26 | Gradually she found herself breathing the clean , laundered smell of his linen shirt , and the warmer , subtler scent of his skin , with a growing and bewildered delight . |
| 27 | Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ? |
| 28 | When we started work on it , however , we found ourselves rewriting the whole grammar , changing its organization , and introducing much additional material based on the Survey of English Usage . |
| 29 | Now , in the bitter 1980s they found themselves facing the impact of annual cuts in real funding , and pressures to apply new codes of managerial techniques and short-term profit-making out of tune with the traditional practices of British universities . |
| 30 | Around 11.30am Cumberland deployed his four marching columns into three lines abreast and the troops moved forward in their battle formation until , 500 yards [ 460 m ] ahead , they found themselves facing the rebel lines , stretching from Culloden park on the rebel left to the walled Culwiniac farm enclosure on their right . |