Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 2 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 3 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 4 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 5 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 6 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 7 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 8 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 9 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 12 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 13 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 14 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 15 | But anyway apart from that I said to Mr , he 's the head over all the hydroelectric stations over this erm I said Mr li these commutators I told him doing the . |
| 16 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 17 | I watched her shuffling the cards that night , and could n't decide if she was beautiful or hideous . |
| 18 | I saw her watching the girl for the longest time and finally she said , " Are those Indian beads ? " |
| 19 | She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching . |
| 20 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 21 | I saw him driving the other day , tell you that ? |
| 22 | I heard the ambulance and the police cars and I saw them putting the man into the ambulance and trying to resuscitate him and driving away . |
| 23 | I saw myself leaving the room , packing a suitcase , writing a note . |
| 24 | I remembered him using the word malfunction , ‘ a surgically induced malfunction ’ , that was it . |
| 25 | I glimpsed one displaying the Red Lion rampart of Scotland as well as the fleur de lys of France . |
| 26 | I said you taking the piss out of them Jane or what ? |