Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] in the kitchen " in BNC.

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1 We found ourselves in the kitchen where a well-groomed girl was washing up - one of the tasks for which residents were responsible in this co-operative household .
2 I found myself in the kitchen , eating sugar from Lord Pabham 's hand .
3 While Mary Ann busied herself in the kitchen , and the uncommunicative Emily disappeared , he took in his surroundings .
4 The woman busied herself in the kitchen and produced a plate piled high like a cairn with potatoes , and a huge pot of tea , and then resumed her knitting by the fire opposite her husband .
5 Two hours later she returned , busied herself in the kitchen and then produced a huge plate loaded with fish and potatoes , and a mammoth pot of tea .
6 I left him , sunk in bliss , and busied myself in the kitchen .
7 She had gone out to the Windmill for ale while he contented himself in the kitchen .
8 The cooking , which could n't be done before the day of the party , looked like an insurmountable mountain to Paige when she presented herself in the kitchen to help .
9 The probability is that the murderer washed himself in the kitchen . ’
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