Example sentences of "she find [pn reflx] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she found herself concluding that her earlier assumption had probably been correct and that there had indeed been someone in Australia , someone who had caused him to return to England in a hurry . |
| 2 | But , as if mesmerized , she found herself getting out of her orange caftan and darting almost minnow-like into the navy-blue dress , so ashamed was she of the greyness of her pants , which had practically detached themselves from the elastic . |
| 3 | She found herself blushing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She found herself wandering , thinking about Pet . |
| 6 | The girls in her class , who had hitherto regarded her as relatively plain , and as a non-starter in the fashion stakes , with no notion of how to twist a school beret or hitch a school skirt , quickly reconsidered their assessment of her , and she found herself elected to an honorary membership of the fastest , smartest slickest coterie . |
| 7 | She had spent a sleepless night agonising over what had happened between herself and David and she found herself dreading what the atmosphere would be like between them . |
| 8 | She found herself listening for breathing and when there was a shout from below her heart pounded , foolishly , because it was only the whoop of a homecoming child racing his brother into the building . |
| 9 | It was a brief respite ; when , presently , she took a break and switched on the radio , she found herself listening to the voice of Detective Inspector Clarke who was being interviewed by a reporter . |
| 10 | Odd sensations chased through her body and she found herself gasping for air . |
| 11 | While a small voice inside her head told her that she would never become queen but would have a tough life she found herself accepting his offer and telling him repeatedly how much she loved him . |
| 12 | To her immense irritation she found herself babbling , as though there was some need for her to explain herself to him . |
| 13 | ‘ What do you understand about anything — especially love ? ’ she found herself demanding . |
| 14 | She had meant to confine herself to the unwelcome proposal of marriage from Manfro Draper , but somehow she found herself telling her listeners all about her mother and father . |
| 15 | She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction . |
| 16 | It seemed years , ages later when she found herself picking up pieces of broken plate and wiping fried egg off the tiles — so that Gran , when she returned , would find the kitchen tidy . |
| 17 | Something in the tone of his voice reached her and she found herself unlocking the door , opening it , looking up at his hard , handsome face with wary eyes . |
| 18 | So she found herself staying in a single room at one of the hotels in Monaco and the following morning making her way back to the cottage with a very much subdued André , whose head was feeling all the after-effects of too much wine . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't — ’ She found herself faltering , wishing , hoping , and wondered if she was being stupid . |
| 20 | All the same , when the cast assembled on stage and stood with bowed heads as Dr Parvin gabbled his blessing , fingers raised to sketch that insidious sign of the cross , she found herself shivering . |
| 21 | Suddenly , she found herself shivering . |
| 22 | The man on the floor who had jacked up grinned at her and she found herself grinning back . |
| 23 | ‘ Any use ? ’ she asked , but waves of tiredness were sweeping over her and she found herself hoping that his answer would be no . |
| 24 | She found herself hoping very much that he would . |
| 25 | With every step her energy crackled ; scarcely knowing at first what she said , she found herself reciting the lines from Cymbeline . |
| 26 | It was , after all , a wonderful sensation creeping through her in response to his lips , and she found herself drifting into co-operation with him , holding his perfect body against her , feeling his heart beat and knowing that they fitted together in a most satisfactory way . |
| 27 | She found herself straining to touch the floor with her fingers , so her butt was raised even higher . |
| 28 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 29 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 30 | She found herself gazing , for minutes on end , at photographs of young men in their flying kit , waiting for the command to take to the skies . |