Example sentences of "i [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I do not , as a rule , take alcohol , the one glass of sherry I had with lunch enabled me to enjoy myself with the other guests . |
| 2 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
| 3 | I reproach myself at the same time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 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 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 . |
| 11 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 12 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 13 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 14 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 15 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 16 | By chance , I found myself in the royal apartments , a long , polished gallery where the freshly waxed wood winked in the sunlight and the walls shimmered with the exquisite tapestries hung there . |
| 17 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 18 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
| 19 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 20 | Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands . |
| 21 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 22 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
| 23 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 24 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 25 | The Clwydian Hills , rising to the south and cloaked in cloud , looked wonderfully alluring : so I threw myself into the long climb with far more vigour than I might have done normally . |
| 26 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 27 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 28 | Feeling as if I was still asleep and having a very curious dream , I settled myself on the other side of the hearth from the stranger and took a sip of cocoa . |
| 29 | I accustomed myself to the mephitic stench . |
| 30 | After a quick wash and shave , dressed in a freshly pressed kilt and battledress blouse , polished boots and all , I presented myself with the other Commandos at the orderly room to get my hands on that very important rail pass . |