Example sentences of "[adv] i found myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well at one time , I was able to cope with that , but eventually I found myself taking three and four weeks to do it , y'know , with time wasting for going out trying to score and stuff like this , just to feel as though I could cope with the job . |
| 2 | So it was that eventually I found myself in a hospital in Swindon close to other victims of Larry Foot . |
| 3 | Suddenly I found myself moving forward and I crouched a little as I had seen the experts do in films . |
| 4 | Suddenly I found myself in hospital clinics being peered at by hundreds of doctors , all making interested sounding noises and saying long biological words . |
| 5 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 6 | Suddenly I found myself in a sack much larger than my body , but completely dark . |
| 7 | So I found myself writing a novel for people like me , primarily for a black audience . |
| 8 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 9 | So I found myself in one of those " Catch 22 " situations and I chose the lesser one , and the one I thought I could defend . |
| 10 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 11 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 12 | So soon I found myself fully kitted out and ready for action with fleecy undergarments , waterproof suits , wellies , helmet and head torch . |
| 13 | Thus I found myself standing against my bedroom wall , with a large stone secured to the end of my penis with a length of string . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 16 | Three months later I found myself settling down to life on a research station in the Amazon rainforest in eastern Ecuador . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some time later I found myself next to him at a dining-club . |
| 19 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 20 | Again I felt that terrible pain and sickness , but a few seconds later I found myself with the face and body and character of Henry Jekyll once more . |
| 21 | A year or so back I found myself sitting next to him , bearded in his old age and wearing plus fours , overall resembling a successful if slightly barmy countryman , at a ghastly new play at the Almeida . |
| 22 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 23 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 24 | The 1970s rolled by and increasingly I found myself spending most of my time in Scottish waters with Venturous , based either at Aberdeen or Leith . |
| 25 | Not very long ago I found myself being interviewed in a university survey on residential mobility in which some of my own students were fieldworkers . |
| 26 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 27 | Then I found myself shouting , inside my head , ‘ I 'll die of AIDS . |
| 28 | - Then I found myself beneath |
| 29 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 30 | Then I found myself sitting outside my daughter 's school waiting to pick her up . |