Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you know that I cry myself to sleep every night ? |
| 2 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 3 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 4 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 5 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 6 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 7 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 8 | So I found myself writing a novel for people like me , primarily for a black audience . |
| 9 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 10 | When the path narrowed , we had to proceed in single file , and I found myself leading the way , with my aunt following closely behind and my father behind her . |
| 11 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 12 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 13 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 14 | I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there . |
| 15 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 16 | To my amused horror , I find myself urging the women to try baking buns ( more sugar , more profit ! ) and working out the amounts for a trial run . |
| 17 | Right now I find myself regretting the fact that we have done very little to replace them . |
| 18 | Consequently I find myself spending a lot of time looking at chairs in museums , shops , exhibitions and other peoples ' houses . |
| 19 | Confronted with Dolle I felt myself becoming a punk mafia dude . |
| 20 | I saw myself leaving the room , packing a suitcase , writing a note . |
| 21 | So I went myself to see the undertaker , select the bearers , and arrange all the funeral details . |
| 22 | ‘ I forced myself to write a chapter or two about the good things he did : getting rid of dead wood in the bureau ; eliminating corruption among his agents ; setting up a fingerprint system , an FBI laboratory that could serve as a technical resource for police forces all over the country . |
| 23 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 24 | First of all , clerical taxation in the 1290s was to be based on the new and higher valuation of their livings made for the purpose initially of papal taxation in 1291 ; this assessment replaced that of 1276 which had itself supplanted the valor of 1254 . |
| 25 | There is a kind of contradiction in classical structuralist writing which attributes to literature a non-referential self-sufficiency supposed to incarnate language 's very being , and yet which continues itself to employ a language whose referential scientificity ignores the very qualities that it speaks of . |
| 26 | This expansive interpretation of the duties of the parties requires them to make decisions with respect to the behaviour of States which have themselves incurred no obligations under the same Convention . |
| 27 | ‘ Entertaining the proprietor was n't part of the job description , ’ she offered , her tone creamy as she nerved herself to continue the debate if necessary . |
| 28 | She could n't remember when she had last eaten and , although she still was n't hungry , she made herself swallow every mouthful . |
| 29 | Thanks to the gruff benevolence of Sir William , Wrench 's play is mounted at the end with Rose in the lead , in it reunited with her true love , Arthur ( Ben Miles ) , who has himself become a rogue , vagabond and gipsy , in those late Victorian days a separate caste altogether . |
| 30 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |