Example sentences of "[that] [pron] found [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters .
2 IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere .
3 The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele .
4 That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used .
5 And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force .
6 She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day .
7 And after no matter what contortions , it was upon Northam Station that she found herself , and with a ticket for Paris in her purse .
8 It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain .
9 It was when Kattina 's fierce tongue finally reached the sensitive folds of her slit that she found herself panting .
10 Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy .
11 The scenario had such an element of truth about it that she found herself embroidering details .
12 It was with a considerable sense of agitation that she found herself opposite room number four .
13 She sat back , closing her eyes , incapable of coherent thought , and then , so slowly that she found herself holding her breath , a tiny spark kindled inside : they had talked through a tangle of mistakes , yet somewhere in it there was something else .
14 She was pulled upwards with startling velocity , the sensation of flying through the air causing the world to tilt so precariously that she found herself clinging to fitzAlan like a drowning woman .
15 Startled , Laura glanced quickly up at him , and met such a warm , infectious grin that she found herself smiling nervously back in return .
16 It was meant to be swift and brief , but the moment she touched him Miguel took control , and kissed her long and hard , so that she found herself breathing deeply , gasping for air .
17 Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August .
18 So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande .
19 Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal .
20 The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position .
21 ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis .
22 It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic .
23 He did n't believe it up to the moment that he found himself outside a half-house that had once been graced by a classical loggia .
24 Everything was in shadow , for the tiers of gas candles — an excellent improvement , that — were dimming , slowly , slowly , taking the sight of his daughters and his wife away from him , so that he found himself alone , as he began to sing .
25 It was at this point that he found himself face to face with Cinzia Miletti .
26 It was several days later that he found himself rising through the complex of dripping wet catwalks and steps that ran around the Power line .
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