Example sentences of "i found [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 4 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 8 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 9 | So I found myself writing a novel for people like me , primarily for a black audience . |
| 10 | Having come across no obvious Selina lookalike among the ladies , I found myself completing an editorial stress quiz , delete where inapplicable , in which your nicotine and alcohol consumption was set against various stress-donating hardships you might or might not be falling foul of . |
| 11 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 12 | When the path narrowed , we had to proceed in single file , and I found myself leading the way , with my aunt following closely behind and my father behind her . |
| 13 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 14 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 15 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 16 | Getting out to inspect the damage , I found myself confronting a shocked Alison Kraemer . |
| 17 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 18 | I found one carrying an old umbrella and another a length of old rope ! |
| 19 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 20 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 21 | I found I had a code . ’ |
| 22 | And I found I had a room all to myself . |
| 23 | It was in the pleasure area , as usual , that I found I had a problem . |
| 24 | When I resumed my studies I found I had a lot of catching up to do . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 26 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 27 | I found I read a lot of books and so on , I rested a lot . |
| 28 | It was not long before I found I liked the Semmens family very much . |