Example sentences of "found herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke of Wellington was happily seated between two attractive young ladies , while Lucille found herself between d'Alembord and a Dutch gunner colonel who complained about the victory eggs , refused the soup , and said the bread was too hard . |
| 2 | Whether consciously or unconsciously , she found herself beside the ground where the cottage she had bought with Ryan had once stood . |
| 3 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 4 | Then she found herself at Lodge offices , where Ethel Mitchell was still working . |
| 5 | Living at such close quarters with them , Anne found herself at odds with the princesses . |
| 6 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
| 7 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 8 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
| 9 | Window displays were becoming controversial within the company ; Laura liked to see windows full of antiques and atmosphere , but increasingly found herself at loggerheads with more prosaic minds who wanted products and price-tags . |
| 10 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 11 | She started work at 14 and by the time she found herself at Vons she 'd held a variety of jobs . |
| 12 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 13 | She found herself at a loss for words . |
| 14 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 15 | Sisterlike or not , Frau Nordern 's word was enough and Erika found herself with a glass of light Hungarian wine and enjoying it , too . |
| 16 | One Keighley mill warper 's wife found herself with four to care for ; and even one could stir up great resentment . |
| 17 | Breeze , of course , already had her afternoon job at the Vicarage , and , as the nurse left soon afterwards , she found herself with her salary increased to fifteen shillings a week and little Nancy to look after , as well as the two boys , and Korah , Dathan and Abiram . |
| 18 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 19 | Sylvia found herself with her naked slit facing the ceiling , and felt his fingers busily parting her thick cunt-lips . |
| 20 | She was tied up until lunch with yet another department meeting but , after a sandwich in the refectory , found herself with a clear afternoon . |
| 21 | Shelley found herself with a woman whose slashed arm required urgent suturing . |
| 22 | She had got lost , returning to their home in Ambleside Road , Warndon , Worcester , and found herself on the M50 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She found herself on the threshold of Fearon 's bedroom : that was a bit tricky and she knew she ought to retreat there and then . |
| 25 | Ruth found herself on her knees , sand rasping between her fingers . |
| 26 | Jacqui found herself on her knees with Kattina behind her . |
| 27 | Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation . |
| 28 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |
| 29 | Almost without knowing how she had got there , Folly found herself on the other side of the double doors , pushing through a curtain of leaves that shrouded the entrance . |
| 30 | Before Isabel had taken another breath she found herself on her back , gazing up at him bemusedly . |