Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] myself on [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I found myself on a level with the whole of the French people ; my new companions … were miners , navvies , workers in metal and wood . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | ‘ Beware the falconer with the clean glove , ’ they say , and certainly I was looking forward to getting my glove dirty — at least metaphorically — with some practical experience when I booked myself on a falconry course on Bodmin Moor in the summer of 1988 . |
| 10 | I busied myself on the shore |
| 11 | I find myself on a small brick platform about twenty feet above a man-made , well-bricked channel which follows a straight course through the factories and warehouses . |
| 12 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 13 | As in the case of last year 's most successful film , Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , I find myself on the side of the audiences . |
| 14 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
| 15 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I hurt myself on a big erm . |
| 18 | I put myself on the line for him once already and look where it got me : thirty-six hours in jail ; Interrogations every four hours . |
| 19 | When I first left home and lived on my own , I gorged myself on an endless round of late night parties and visits to newly-found friends which lasted until the early hours of the morning . |
| 20 | This time I patted myself on the back all the way to the hotel . |
| 21 | I justify myself on the grounds that I do n't indulge in idle gossip and have never sought to aggrandise myself or to do harm to others . |
| 22 | I pride myself on the efforts I have made to retain my individual values while working for my company . |
| 23 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 24 | I see myself on the train , in holiday mood , then walking past sunlit honeyed stone walls with doorways opening into quiet inner worlds of lawns and laughter . |