Example sentences of "she found herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her patience in equally short supply , she found herself exasperated , not for the first time , by Peony 's snide tongue . |
| 2 | Favret-Saada 's unique analysis ( ibid. 1–28 ) of the bizarre subjective position she found herself in is a masterful assessment of the difficulties which arise when the ethnographer seeks to gain knowledge of a social group which depends for its existence on ‘ misknowledge ’ or silence : |
| 3 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
| 4 | As he ate and drank she found herself chattering away to him out of nervousness , a stream of things that went through her head , the small happenings of a day . |
| 5 | She was incapable of work , bewildered by the sudden inexplicability of situations she found herself in . |
| 6 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 7 | Unfortunately apart from some of the movies mentioned above , she found herself stuck in the '40s with the unwelcome label of Queen of the B's , because of her frequent roles in Charlie Chan , Mr Moto and Falcon Quickies . |
| 8 | Dot Opened her eyes to glance sideways at Mrs Hollidaye but she was still in the same position , kneeling , so Dot lowered her lids and , though she had n't meant to she found herself thinking about Gloria , still asleep in that high bed with the soft eiderdown . |
| 9 | Despite these brave words , when Mrs Hawkes lay on her death-bed sixteen years later , she found herself assailed . |
| 10 | ‘ Have people let you down , then , Bella ? ’ she found herself saying . |
| 11 | She found herself more and more hunting down and making sure of the little things . |
| 12 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 13 | She found herself walking along the road saying ‘ I 'll talk it all over with Alan when I get in — he 'll know what to do ’ , only to remember that it was Alan who was the cause of the heartache . |
| 14 | She found herself thinking that when she had forced herself to read how and when Oreste had died she would take her sleeping baby and drown both him and herself forthwith . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 17 | She found herself in the public library . |
| 18 | And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row . |
| 19 | But somehow , she found herself in a large , empty room . |
| 20 | Walking to the station , past the brightly-lit boutiques , cinemas , remainder bookshops and tatty souvenir stalls , all decorated for Christmas and building up to the January sales , she found herself having to think about what had happened to her . |
| 21 | It is hard to imagine that Leapor would sentimentalize the condition of celibacy , especially if she found herself mocked as an old maid . |
| 22 | Although it appears that she reached a peace with her father , she found herself constrained within that relationship ; she portrays several fathers who are sympathetic , and one especially who is repugnant . |
| 23 | She did n't know how it happened , but she found herself in Mrs Lennox 's arms , who comforted her as though she were a child . |
| 24 | She found herself wandering , thinking about Pet . |
| 25 | She found herself blushing . |
| 26 | His grasp tightened around it automatically , and she found herself smiling . |
| 27 | Of course such a supper , minus the wine , she might have eaten on any of the evenings ( and they now stretched back a long way ) when she found herself alone . |
| 28 | She found herself thinking , I have held my fire too long and lost the moment of action . |
| 29 | As soon as nightfall arrived , she found herself locking doors , shutting windows , and finding strange solace in being barred and bolted . |
| 30 | As she made her way across to the church steps she found herself suddenly in bright sunlight and away from the crowds . |