Example sentences of "[conj] i found myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 2 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 3 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 4 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 5 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 6 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 7 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , there seems to be some feeling here that China has fallen right behind the rest of the world in matters of language study and language teaching methodology , so I found myself , on one day , giving a résumé of Linguistics in the west over the past 50 years ! |
| 10 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 11 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 12 | I knew that I was alone , and I found myself saying over my name to myself to intensify my individuality to bring about a conviction that though alone I was strong . |
| 13 | ‘ And I found myself floating quite calmly above my body . |
| 14 | I said ‘ That 's it — I 'm going ’ , and I found myself walking out … |
| 15 | The review started to become rather long , and I found myself — with some considerable difficulty — trying to be scholarly , and to achieve an air of objective reality . |
| 16 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 20 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 21 | I waited a thousand years for my introduction , then the curtains opened and I found myself centre-stage . |
| 22 | Venues boasting ‘ Fred ont' thorgan ’ and ‘ Bert ont' drums ’ were getting rarer and I found myself working more and more with small orchestras . |
| 23 | A dense fog descended on the field and I found myself isolated at left-half marking the right winger — yes , it was some years ago ! |
| 24 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The formation of this remark in my mind encouraged me greatly and I found myself smiling . |
| 27 | But then the dreaded word ‘ school ’ was mentioned , and I found myself decked out in a strange blue and grey uniform with a new yellow and blue tie and a starched white shirt collar that felt tight and very uncomfortable round my neck . |
| 28 | The range of everyday articles on the shelves reminded me abruptly of things at home , and I found myself thinking of my last night before leaving London . |
| 29 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 30 | When he finally got on his feet , Roger seemed unduly keen , and I found myself unexpectedly on the defensive . |