Example sentences of "i [verb] [pn reflx] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I flung myself at it , pounding footsteps were behind me . |
| 2 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 3 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 4 | I reproach myself at the same time . |
| 5 | Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does . |
| 6 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 7 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 9 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 10 | Acting on a hunch , I stationed myself at 5.59 p.m. the following Monday , and sure enough I was nearly killed by middle managers trying to get out of the office before the 6 p.m. deadline . |
| 11 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 12 | I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it . |
| 13 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 14 | I knacker myself at my job to keep her nice and warm in my HOUSE , WITH MY KIDS AND MY DOG AND MY HI-FI AND MY CAR AND MY DAVID HOCKNEY PRINT … |
| 15 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 16 | After another soothing dusk spent gazing at weirs and waterfalls , I presented myself at the Kenny Gallery , behind the bookshop . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , I was discovered , and when I presented myself at Wandsworth police station I was arrested . |
| 18 | On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa . |
| 19 | One day , when I felt bold enough I presented myself at his studio . |
| 20 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For a dizzy moment , I pictured myself at home in London surrounded by an entire harem of these dark-eyed beauties . |
| 23 | ‘ I throw myself at your feet , oh Lord Malamute . ’ |
| 24 | I throw myself at this Azadi and we wrestle like children in the mud . |
| 25 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 26 | Still they were a generous , friendly bunch and they told me to make myself at home until the editorial meeting later in the afternoon . |