Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got myself elected onto the Students ' Council where I muddled through , never having read the agenda papers and often not knowing what on earth everyone else was talking about . |
| 2 | Said the communique De Benedetti sent out by facsimile about an hour after his meeting with the judges , which the paper said seemed to be written in his own hand : ‘ Several times , I resisted the vexations of the regime , in some occasions I resigned myself to accept them , but only when I found myself faced with the necessity of defending the survival of the company and the thousands of dependents and shareholders toward whom I felt a massive responsibility . |
| 3 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 4 | On my last visit to Lewis I found myself repelled by the use of derogatory nicknames , and could n't understand why I was reacting so violently . |
| 5 | ‘ This operation in Latvia , ’ I found myself speaking in a whisper , ‘ what is it doing that these machines will do for the rest of Russia ? ’ |
| 6 | I found myself revising with the small colloquia that lay around the grassy precincts of the university . |
| 7 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 8 | I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more . |
| 9 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 10 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 11 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 12 | I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . |
| 13 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 14 | One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt . |
| 15 | Once more , I found myself sympathising with a Punters lady . |
| 16 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 17 | I was inclined to laugh until I found myself shuffling along the edge of one levada , eyes fixed to avoid looking at the drop below . |
| 18 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
| 19 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 20 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
| 21 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 22 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 23 | I hear myself scream in the treble , and , Ahhh ! and Ahhh ! again . |
| 24 | ’ You 'd need the smarten up , you know , ’ I heard myself say like a schoolmaster . |
| 25 | I ca n't speak for everyone , but whenever I find myself eating in a pub it 's usually because raging hunger has overcome the judgement of discriminating palate . |
| 26 | I find myself pausing for a few dots myself before I turn over the page to find where all this is leading . |
| 27 | And much though I appreciate your relentless exhumation of the world 's injustices month by month , I find myself hankering after the wacky old days . |
| 28 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 29 | As we dance I find myself staring at the French girl — she has a very pretty face with long , dark hair on to her shoulders , slim build and about 5′ 2″ in height . |
| 30 | A few discreet phone calls and suddenly I find myself shunted into a siding while the investigation into Ruggiero 's murder passes me by . ’ |