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writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports .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 . |