Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 2 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 3 | Now that I seek myself in a serpent |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
| 6 | South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward . |
| 7 | A feeling of terror mounted in me , and I dragged myself to the telephone and rang Émile . |
| 8 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
| 9 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 10 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 11 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 12 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
| 13 | Then , as my breath has now returned to me and I find myself in the company of my bestest friend , it is my considered opinion that we proceed together upon the epic journey and face as one whatever adventures lie before . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 15 | Of course Scamp gets to claim about twenty grand on some dubious insurance policy and I resign myself to the fact that I 'll never get beyond Inspector . |
| 16 | I 'm a single parent , and I blame myself for the way he is — but I feel it 's too late to get through to him now as talking or reasoning does n't work . |
| 17 | Again I accept the constant parental care has been of the highest calibre and I remind myself of the many tributes to the quality of that care in the evidence before me . |
| 18 | My friend and I settled ourselves onto the snow and uncorked a well-chilled bottle of wine in the hope of getting merry . |
| 19 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 20 | This degree is an exciting new venture , and I see myself as the first of many lay people who will benefit from the training here ’ . |
| 21 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 22 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 23 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 27 | and I found myself in a bare street . |
| 28 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 29 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 30 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |