Example sentences of "as i [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 As I flung myself at it , pounding footsteps were behind me .
3 It was a nice flat with a good view and as I let myself into Stuart Street , I wished I could remember how to find it again .
4 Then you started on with that high-handed act , and I felt a tremendous urge to tame your proud spirit , hear your soft whimpering sighs as I buried myself in you .
5 It 's raining heavily as I wrap myself in my gascape and move further to the back of the trench .
6 I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ .
7 As I know myself to be entirely English … ’ she told Parliament in March 1702 , three days after her accession , ‘ there is not one thing you can expect or desire of me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness or prosperity of England . ’
8 I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money .
9 The vast majority of academic writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports .
10 All thoughts of tiredness had now gone as I prepared myself for breakfast and quickened my pace towards the barn .
11 The first cone was melted to a puddle , the second was bending in obeisance to the blaze — as I felt myself to be , stooped there before the kiln , wanting to gaze and gaze , but the vision was barely supportable .
12 Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me .
13 During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma .
14 It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature .
15 And for a person in a somewhat delicate emotional condition , as I believe myself to be , this is hard to contemplate .
16 ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion .
17 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
18 I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time .
19 As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions .
20 As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me .
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