Example sentences of "[pers pn] find [pn reflx] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 2 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 3 | At table number six I found myself placed between Mackie and Erica Upton , who were already seated . |
| 4 | Somewhere nearby a field of broad beans was in full flower and as the exotic scent drifted across I found myself inhaling with half-closed eyes as though straining to discern the ingredients of the glorious melange . |
| 5 | Lipman 's column in the May issue was fetchingly entitled : ‘ I found myself weeping over an economy-sized box of tampons ’ . |
| 6 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 7 | A couple of years ago , I found myself consumed with this very thought . |
| 8 | Yet , however successful in other spheres of my life , when facing my mother I found myself hiding my hurt just when I most needed to express it . |
| 9 | Said the communique De Benedetti sent out by facsimile about an hour after his meeting with the judges , which the paper said seemed to be written in his own hand : ‘ Several times , I resisted the vexations of the regime , in some occasions I resigned myself to accept them , but only when I found myself faced with the necessity of defending the survival of the company and the thousands of dependents and shareholders toward whom I felt a massive responsibility . |
| 10 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 11 | ‘ This was the first fight I found myself screaming . |
| 12 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 13 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 14 | In the meantime , despite my reservations , I found myself reflecting on headvoice 's idea : I had to admit , it might make a story . |
| 15 | Using the ME-6 through a valve combo I found myself trying to squeeze more tone out of all the distortion settings , something I do n't ever remember trying to do with BOSS 's DS1 compact distortion pedal which , for some reason , I assumed the overdrive on the ME-6 would emulate . |
| 16 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On my last visit to Lewis I found myself repelled by the use of derogatory nicknames , and could n't understand why I was reacting so violently . |
| 19 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 20 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 21 | As the servant was kicking them out , Mary Godwin entered , and I found myself flushing — partly with the wine , no doubt , but mainly with the agonizing exhilaration of confronting the author of Frankenstein , or The Modern Prometheus . |
| 22 | It was not entirely by chance that soon afterwards I found myself discussing historic family houses in central London with my 90-year-old friend Monsignor Gilbey . |
| 23 | Suddenly I found myself moving forward and I crouched a little as I had seen the experts do in films . |
| 24 | I found myself thinking affectionately that I ought to be straightforward with him ; the English liked that . |
| 25 | Instead I found myself thinking ‘ AIDS ’ . |
| 26 | I found myself thinking , ‘ old piano players never die , they just fade away . ’ |
| 27 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 28 | The range of everyday articles on the shelves reminded me abruptly of things at home , and I found myself thinking of my last night before leaving London . |
| 29 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 30 | I on the other hand went on the stage entirely by design and it was no accident that after twenty-odd years , I found myself thinking more and more of my childhood heroine . |