Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 4 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 5 | I always position myself on the side in which the rabbits hit the net . |
| 6 | I totally lost myself in the remoteness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Shall I now wrap myself in the duvet and slip into the shower for a misty out-of-focus silhouette ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I often find myself in the middle , accused of reaction by both parties . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If you kill the people you love — or run away from them — you only smash yourself in the end . |
| 14 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 15 | She so endeared herself to the library staff that , as soon as a post became free , they organized it so it could be part-time to fit Susan 's family commitments . |
| 16 | Fearing to open it , she nevertheless forced herself across the room , but when it swung open a maid in a black dress and smart white apron stood before her . |
| 17 | Why then did she not inform herself of the purport and effect of the transfer before signing it ? |
| 18 | She scarcely recognised herself in the woman who confronted her . |
| 19 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 20 | Can you also put yourself in the editor 's shoes and draft a short introductory paragraph . |
| 21 | She practically flung herself into the driver 's seat , moaning loudly with pain as she eased herself into position and started the engine . |
| 22 | ‘ It means , ’ replied the elder hedgehog , ‘ that you simply put yourself in the dog 's place , and think how you would like someone to behave towards you . ’ |
| 23 | She then busied herself around the room , the implication quite clear : I was to drink up and get out as quickly as I could . |
| 24 | She then concealed herself in the shadows between the two towers , thus to survey the scene and decide on her best approach . |
| 25 | She almost offered herself for the fight , the surrogate , the already-victorious . |
| 26 | Mrs Gracie had come to associate herself so much with the family that she almost included herself in the purchase . |
| 27 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 28 | Rather than remain uninvolved in village activities and risking the accusation of being ‘ stand-offish ’ , many of them enthusiastically throw themselves into the life of the community , provoking the opposite complaint from the local population of ‘ wanting to take the place over ’ . |
| 29 | Thoroughly angered , a thousand seamen , armed , we are told , with " cannon , guns , muskets , musquetoons , blunderbusses , pistols , swords , cutlasses , clubs , sticks , stones , bricks and other offensive weapons " surrounded the Exchange , some of them also regaling themselves from the contents of the stores of nearby wine merchants which had been broken into . |
| 30 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |