Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reproach myself at the same time . |
| 2 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 3 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 4 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 5 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 6 | When Mrs Gray had produced two very passable cups of coffee , they seated themselves at the long deal kitchen table . |
| 7 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 8 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 9 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 10 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 11 | He launched himself at the taller of the two men , dragging him back . |