Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |
| 2 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 3 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 4 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 5 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 6 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |
| 7 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 8 | The Mexican atmosphere was contagious and I soon found myself on a crowded coach bound for Mexico . |
| 9 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 10 | I always position myself on the side in which the rabbits hit the net . |
| 11 | ‘ I always take myself as a starting point when it comes to songs , going on to explore situations in a manner that is very sound-oriented , ’ she says , rather vaguely . |
| 12 | I totally lost myself in the remoteness . |
| 13 | I also remind myself of the effect upon the plaintiff 's fathers career , of his decision to give up work in order to attend the plaintiff . |
| 14 | Shall I now wrap myself in the duvet and slip into the shower for a misty out-of-focus silhouette ? ’ |
| 15 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
| 16 | I often find myself in the middle , accused of reaction by both parties . |
| 17 | I was usually summoned by telephone and invited round to Downing Street at 8 p.m. , when Wilson would be alone in the Cabinet room , which he preferred to any office or study , and where , sitting at the long Cabinet table , I often found myself in the seat normally occupied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and enjoyed moments of brief delusional glory ! |
| 18 | ‘ I simply forgot myself for a moment , that 's all , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 19 | As far as personnel are concerned , every attempt will be made to refer to them according to skills , professions or areas of activity ( e.g. audio-visual technicians , media producers , design consultants ) , and normally the expression " educational technologist " will imply someone consciously identifying himself with the theory and methodology of the movement . |
| 20 | The normal processes of consultation took place , and after one or two false alarms , during which I kidded myself that I was perfectly all right , I ultimately found myself in the regulation NHS nightshirt , sitting amidst expectant mothers , in the gynaecology section of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital , waiting to sample the wonders of the ultra-scan . |
| 21 | It was 15 years before I again strapped myself into a microlight — and that was only after acquiring a full Group A licence . |
| 22 | Most extraordinary thing : as wife shoves high-chair into car 's rear suspension and I quietly herniate myself on a couple of bags filled with Devon mud and light aggregate thieved from local quarry by children , strange sense of loss creeps over me . |
| 23 | While Gould 's first impressions were not favourable , he was determined , as he wrote to Sir John Franklin , to keep an open mind : ‘ The heat and dust of Sydney is extremable neither does the presence of Drunkards which constantly present themselves in the streets add to the interest of this place , time and better acquaintance with the country will however perhaps enable me to speak better of it . ’ |
| 24 | This is the untold story of an exchange which rightly prides itself on an ability to offer efficient markets in leading shares but which can not cope with the unattractive smaller companies . |
| 25 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 26 | He then fires the weapon , which automatically steers itself toward the target and dives on to its vulnerable upper parts . |
| 27 | Whether or not they were former members of Big Flame , the International Marxist Group , or any of the other sects which now dissolved themselves into the Labour Party , the Right-Ons ' most effective weapon was an endless capacity to attend even the most obscure meetings . |
| 28 | My advice is to remember that the short story is about one thing and one thing only , which often reveals itself in a single situation . |
| 29 | In a thoughtful exploration of the relevance of Caplan 's crisis theory ( 1961 ) for social work practice , O'Hagan proposed that the chaotic situations which frequently present themselves in a social service department require a different understanding of the nature of a crisis and the part played by a social worker in resolving it . |
| 30 | An attacker throws a right punch which is blocked with an outside palm , which then wraps itself around the attacker 's wrist in a grabbing movement . |