Example sentences of "[noun prp] found [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now happily married to actress Gwen Humble , 38 , Ian found himself studying an action replay of his early days as a hell-raising Hollywood star as it ran through his mind — and he winced at what he saw . |
| 2 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 3 | With the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia , Germany found itself at war with its trade competitors in the west , and at war with its nationalist rivals and its potential empire in the east . |
| 4 | Germany found itself facing an expansionist Europe and a booming industry . |
| 5 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 6 | But instead , for a dizzying instant , as he wrapped his cloak about her , Isabel found herself savouring a delicious sensation of feeling small and infinitely fragile , enclosed within his arms . |
| 7 | Confused by the light in her eyes and the constant chattering of their host , Isabel found herself ushered into the house before she could correct the man 's assumption that she was fitzAlan 's lady . |
| 8 | Isabel found herself staring at Matilda 's kindly face , completely at a loss . |
| 9 | His grip tightened on her arm and Isabel found herself upright again . |
| 10 | When the tower walls swung back into focus Isabel found herself clutching a chainmail tunic , quite unaware of the metal links cutting into her palms as she gazed straight into the ice-blue eyes of her husband . |
| 11 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 12 | Lisa found herself rushing on to inform him , ‘ This is one of my more conservative creations . ’ |
| 13 | It was a contradiction in terms , Lisa found herself thinking as she looked back across the desk at him . |
| 14 | Lisa found herself watching him as they chatted about this and that , quietly amazed at the easy way he fitted in with them . |
| 15 | Thiercelin and Lefevre found themselves received at their billet with almost embarrassing cordiality , the householder , Herr Bauer , and his wife insisting upon catering for their every need , whilst regaling them with complaints of Hapsburg perfidy and the brutality of their Russian allies . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the price of cattle fell from £5 a head to £1 a head shortly after this arrangement was made , and the Masai found themselves being asked to pay more and more for what seemed to them to be less and less — for some of the waterworks had already begun to fail . |
| 17 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 18 | As the train drew into Bodmin , Alexandra found herself clasping her own hands so tightly she could feel the seams of her gloves grinding into her flesh and wished , passionately for the visit to be a success , for them to like her house , approve of what she had done — and above all , to leave her alone to do it . |
| 19 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 20 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 21 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 22 | Lying contented in his arms , it was only as the euphoria gradually faded that Luce found herself wondering , had he felt the same ? |
| 23 | The reluctance with which Luke released her was palpable , his expression drawn into lines of hostility , and as she sat up , and then stood , Maria found herself deriving a savagely biting joy from the fact that she had surprised him . |
| 24 | Unaccustomed to such tenderness from this man who had so rarely shown her anything but contempt and passion , Maria found herself beginning to tremble , while a hot , smarting sensation afflicted her eyes and emotion tightened her throat . |
| 25 | Unexpectedly , Sophie found herself defending Robert . |
| 26 | And suddenly Steiner found himself saying , ‘ My father . |
| 27 | So at eight o'clock that evening , Bathsheba found herself , in spite of her doubts , climbing the hill near her house and going down the other side . |
| 28 | Denis found himself a little abashed , and rose to cover his embarrassment . |
| 29 | So it was that Ms Wainwright found herself manhandling ( if that 's the word ) the seven-by-four polystyrene boards across the frozen Alaskan wastes , often in the teeth of gale force winds and in temperatures down to -40°C . |
| 30 | As he suggested that Richards had been less than sporting , Martin-Jenkins found himself banned from the local airwaves and Public Enemy Number One in Barbados ; since he is renowned as a courteous , generous-spirited chap , it brought home to English fans just how fervently Richards is regarded in the Caribbean , although any English supporter who watched the incident on television would have been hard pushed to disagree with Martin-Jenkins 's assessment of it . |