Example sentences of "[vb past] myself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 2 | While my sisters wore sundresses , their backs and shoulders bared , I swathed myself in jackets , scarves and gloves . |
| 3 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 4 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 5 | And yet , alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema : the transition from day to night ; the day for night of the viewing ; the transition back to daylight . |
| 6 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 7 | ( For some reason I found myself in Charlbury last week — about 15 miles from where I thought I was , and ought to have been ! ) |
| 8 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 9 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 10 | I found myself in a grey council estate that faced the river . |
| 11 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I found myself in a smart town square surrounded by glittering bars , hotels and souvenir shops . |
| 14 | All of a sudden , I found myself in a festive gathering , as I had absent-mindedly gatecrashed an exhibition launch at the Gallery of Photography . |
| 15 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 16 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 17 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 18 | A helpful , somewhat overstated hotel doorman gave me instant directions , from which I found myself in the shadow of Vine Street facing what seemed to be a series of rear entrances to a rather less than impressive warehouse . |
| 19 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 20 | I found myself in pursuit , not out of choice , but because I was being chased by the mob behind . |
| 21 | I went on , confident of my compass , but becoming less so , and found myself in the middle of a disused airfield , among landing markers , gutted buildings and a wrecked radar scanner . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I had to get my passport done , my parents ' written permission because I was only seventeen and I found myself in Paris two days later . |
| 24 | She barked back , the door slid open wide enough for me to enter and I found myself in a roomful of dames all with rigor mortis of the third-finger-of-the-left-hand . |
| 25 | I found myself in a rough cubicle with a torn curtain hanging to approximately knee-height . |
| 26 | SUPERNOVAE Starfield Guitars I did n't know exactly what to expect upon opening these guitar cases , but I found myself in danger of becoming seriously enthusiastic about the contents … |
| 27 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 28 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 29 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 30 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |