Example sentences of "and find [pn reflx] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |
| 3 | I wanted to hear about the riots in Asyut and found myself leaning forward , anxious that he should not clam up . |
| 4 | I did n't bother to switch off the tape , and found myself listening to a religious programme , which suggested that suffering , guilt and penance is the path towards righteousness . |
| 5 | and found myself listening to Gav and Janice . |
| 6 | I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me about Joyce , ’ I said quickly , and found myself fixed by a menacing leer . |
| 8 | At 3.00 pm I had my first ‘ informal ’ meeting with the CIEFL staff and students , and found myself addressing an audience of some 40 persons on communicative grammar and semantics . |
| 9 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 10 | I was confused by all these solicitous questions , and found myself telling more lies than I had to . |
| 11 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 13 | The following night , I was speaking at a transport dinner in London and found myself sitting two or three down from a general . |
| 14 | I sat — or rather , collapsed — on the beach , and found myself sobbing . |
| 15 | It said : ‘ On my way to the courtyard this morning , I went into your gallery as a sanctuary and found myself surrounded by startling , horrific and disturbing images which yet had a positive and uplifting effect . |
| 16 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 17 | The play — just the middle-aged woman buried in a mound — was to me quite unexpectedly wonderful — I went for Ivy , and found myself forgetting her . |
| 18 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 19 | I had known , of course , that the signatures of two doctors were necessary for certifying the insane , and found myself saying , ‘ But he 's not mad . |
| 20 | She lives in a field with some others , and when she walked towards me I realised I was n't properly prepared , and found myself saying , ‘ How do you say hello to a pig ? ’ |
| 21 | While most people might be familiar with throwing out mouldy bread and mouldy cheese , like my friends all around me , I was continually having to throw out mouldy furniture , clothes and toys and found myself having to choose between feeding my hungry children or hungry fuel meters which kept demanding more and more money . |
| 22 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 23 | Have you ever started to speak and found yourself having to stop and take short breaths just to get through a sentence ? |
| 24 | ‘ And found yourself confronting two different forms of menace , the power station and the Whistler . ’ |
| 25 | A disgruntled postman rang up a radio chat show to complain , and found himself spearheading an anti-Florio movement that culminated in 50,000 people marching on the state capitol . |
| 26 | Also , at the Gala Night of a Hundred Stars evening at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton , a mime artist came on stage and found himself struggling with a sticky audience . |
| 27 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he called , and found himself looking at Nell . |
| 28 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 29 | Hazel reached the hedge , crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long , shadowy aisle between two rows of beans . |
| 30 | ‘ Good day to thee , sire , ’ Blind Hugh began , and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it . |