Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I got myself extremely fit during the summer and got the bug again . |
| 2 | But best of all , I found myself gainfully employed in the South Tyne , which was only a ten-minute walk from the front door , five if I ran , which I often did . |
| 3 | In the course of a long interview in his apartment , I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension , inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself , but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons ' self-effacing earnestness was a scam . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Half of them in self-defence because I found myself so attracted to you . |
| 6 | Now , Pat and I found ourselves nervously waiting to be let in . |
| 7 | And she found herself unwillingly waiting for Piers to return , watching the door , listening for the sound of the car . |
| 8 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 9 | Her first thought was to pick a young teenager 's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls , but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf . |
| 10 | She landed up with still more work on her hands when the wardrobe mistress fell ill and she found herself gamely stepping into the breach . |
| 11 | She found herself half listening to his gossip , her mind drifting away to Piers and Nicole , wondering whether the day they were spending together had spilled over into night , and whether her husband suspected anything about what was between them . |
| 12 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 13 | She took herself in hand , the essay she told herself firmly had to be shelved : one step before the other . |
| 14 | She shook herself vigorously to throw off the fugginess in her head . |
| 15 | When his kiss only brushed her cheekbone , she pulled herself away to stare into doubt . |
| 16 | It was noted that she kept herself almost isolated from her own colleagues . |
| 17 | She felt herself mysteriously attached to the whole of creation . |
| 18 | And thence to Halifax where they had entered the town in their thousands , led by the women , Sairellen had been pleased to hear , walking four and five abreast , empty-handed and bare-headed as she had herself once walked to York , singing the psalm she too had sung on that day . |
| 19 | As British diplomats manoeuvred to protect extra-European spheres of influence against foreign rivals , they found themselves inexorably drawn into taking sides in the hardening alliance system on the European continent . |
| 20 | He found himself unexpectedly touched by her simple assumption , the way she absolutely took it for granted , that he was innocent . |
| 21 | He now watched Mick follow Carrie to the door way that led into the scullery , and he found himself also stepping in that direction , until he could take in the whole of the scullery and the open backyard door through which Mr Carver was now passing , saying as he did so , ‘ Ta-rah , then . ’ |
| 22 | With a French father , a Norwegian mother , and a mainly English education , he found himself perpetually treated as an object of faintly mocking derision : a Frog at school , an Anglo-Saxon Milor on holiday in France , and some sort of raping and pillaging Viking everywhere . |
| 23 | Whenever he visited the O'Malleys he found himself secretly staring at her , letting his eyes roam over her full breasts and wide hips , gauging her breeding possibilities as he would a heifer at a fair . |
| 24 | He was there on a Kodak sponsorship to cover a gruelling four-day Super Marathon through the Hoggar Mountains in Algeria , but he found himself constantly distracted by the staggering terrain that surrounded him . |