Example sentences of "i [verb] myself [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 D' you know that I cry myself to sleep every night ?
2 I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well .
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 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 .
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 saner times , I found myself watching the wheel .
7 So I found myself writing a novel for people like me , primarily for a black audience .
8 I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged .
9 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 .
10 I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace .
11 After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated .
12 I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter .
13 I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there .
14 I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’
15 Right now I find myself regretting the fact that we have done very little to replace them .
16 Consequently I find myself spending a lot of time looking at chairs in museums , shops , exhibitions and other peoples ' houses .
17 Confronted with Dolle I felt myself becoming a punk mafia dude .
18 I saw myself leaving the room , packing a suitcase , writing a note .
19 So I went myself to see the undertaker , select the bearers , and arrange all the funeral details .
20 I forced myself to write a chapter or two about the good things he did : getting rid of dead wood in the bureau ; eliminating corruption among his agents ; setting up a fingerprint system , an FBI laboratory that could serve as a technical resource for police forces all over the country .
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