Example sentences of "[pers pn] find himself [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 2 | When Jean-Claude took over the space for his piano , he found himself lugging the trunk into the light . |
| 3 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 4 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 5 | He went to the court where he found himself dubbed the plaintiff , paid a fee and a deposit for which he received a receipt . |
| 6 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 7 | he found himself crossing the square |
| 8 | He found himself becoming the emotional prop of the marriage . |
| 9 | ‘ Watts is really only sixth in the pecking order up front , but suddenly he found himself playing the biggest game of his life and he did himself proud . ’ |
| 10 | He found himself studying the thin man 's hands . |
| 11 | Secretly , and with some self-reproach , he found himself resenting the circumstances of this imposition . |
| 12 | Within twenty minutes he found himself minding the store , while Haynes slipped out ‘ for a few minutes ’ . |
| 13 | He found himself avoiding the street in which Francesca lived as he drove for North Kensington , calling ahead on his car phone to make sure that the forensic team was still there . |
| 14 | At the age of 16 , alone in his uncle 's house in Madurai , he describes how a sudden terror of death overtook him , and he found himself dramatizing the occurrence of death . |
| 15 | He found himself following the line of marks left in the carpet by the sharp heels of her shoes , caught himself watching the alternate bracing of her calf muscles as she moved to and fro . |