Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 2 | Li Yuan , watching her , found himself spellbound by the song , transfixed by the pain in her face as she sang , and astonished that he had never heard her sing before — that he had never guessed she had these talents . |
| 3 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
| 4 | He switched on his torch and found himself alone in the office . |
| 5 | Her mouth parting ardently beneath his , she began to unbutton his shirt with unsteady fingers , then slithered lower to kiss his bare brown chest , exulting in the thunder of his heart for a moment before she found herself flat on the sofa as Penry slid her jersey over her head , then dispensed with the scrap of satin beneath . |
| 6 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 7 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 8 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 9 | She woke and found herself alone in the bed ; a door closed and she identified the sound . |
| 10 | And besides , she found herself glad of the breathing-space . |
| 11 | Agnes found herself surprised at the change in the gentleman 's voice as he looked at her father and said , ‘ Oh , yes , yes . |
| 12 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 13 | It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality . |
| 14 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 15 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 16 | On departure , many of the younger guests , deeming themselves insufficiently primed , were about to ‘ go on ’ somewhere , and in the end I found myself alone on the pavement with Eliot . |
| 17 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |