Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
2 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
5 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
6 | How do you expect me to conceive myself as no longer existent ? ’ |
7 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
8 | Pinning the laminate onto my dress , I launch myself into the throng . |
9 | I mean myself as a councillor I think i if you 're a councillor you should be involved in the strike in one way or another you know . |
10 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
11 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
12 | I reproach myself at the same time . |
13 | And then I got myself in a knot cos there was a car coming up the road |
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 associate myself with the expressions of sympathy . |
16 | I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share . |
17 | I shift myself from the mirror to the window , to see what she does . |
18 | I found myself considering the protocol — an absurdity in the face of my determination to flout convention with regard to the funeral arrangements ! |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
21 | Stepping over a ridge along the floor , I found myself beside an immense open fireplace , all trace of grate and mantelpiece removed . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | ‘ I found myself on a level with the whole of the French people ; my new companions … were miners , navvies , workers in metal and wood . |
25 | 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 . |
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 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |
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 . ) |