Example sentences of "i [vb past] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 2 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 3 | As I flung myself at it , pounding footsteps were behind me . |
| 4 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 5 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 6 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
| 7 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 8 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 9 | I got myself into trouble … |
| 10 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 11 | A couple of days later I was that fed up I got myself in trouble . |
| 12 | And then I got myself in a knot cos there was a car coming up the road |
| 13 | So I dedicated myself to God . |
| 14 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 15 | I found myself considering the protocol — an absurdity in the face of my determination to flout convention with regard to the funeral arrangements ! |
| 16 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
| 17 | Without realizing , I found myself between two groups of youths throwing bottles at each other . |
| 18 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 19 | Stepping over a ridge along the floor , I found myself beside an immense open fireplace , all trace of grate and mantelpiece removed . |
| 20 | On a wet Wednesday in March 1987 , as part of a short survey - not scientifically conducted , but as part of a personal investigation into the cause of alienation among secondary age children — I found myself with a group of seven girls and one boy , between the ages of twelve and fifteen , at the Didcot Health Centre at four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 21 | ‘ He had to pick an England team from what was left after the week-end games a fortnight ago , while I found myself with just two players at Highbury for almost the entire week . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So it was that , just before my fourteenth birthday , I found myself with my parents and brother at the foot of an unprepossessing mountain called locally El Jocoso , the Jocund . |
| 24 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
| 25 | ‘ I found myself on a level with the whole of the French people ; my new companions … were miners , navvies , workers in metal and wood . |
| 26 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 27 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 . |
| 30 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |