Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . |
| 2 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 3 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 4 | ‘ I find myself talking to the baby all the time . |
| 5 | I excuse myself to go to the toilet and throw up . |
| 6 | It was a brief respite ; when , presently , she took a break and switched on the radio , she found herself listening to the voice of Detective Inspector Clarke who was being interviewed by a reporter . |
| 7 | When at last Luke released her , she found herself clinging to the kitchen cabinet like a shipwrecked mariner to a rock . |
| 8 | With unashamed interest , he studied her anxious , freshly scrubbed face , and she found herself responding to the arrival at last of his faint , elusive smile , her limpid eyes softening with warmth because she knew instinctively that he smiled rarely and that she was privileged . |
| 9 | Again she found herself responding to the fever of his passionate desire , and as her own need rose to meet it a small cry of yearning left her — a cry that was accompanied by a totally different cry that echoed from downstairs . |
| 10 | But she found herself talking to the empty room , and the sky outside the window was the untroubled blue of a peaceful July morning . |
| 11 | She felt herself moving to the side with the others , as the lights were lowered , and a stool placed in the centre of the dance-floor . |
| 12 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 13 | She forced herself to listen to the service , the man 's responses firm and gruff , the girl 's scarcely audible . |
| 14 | She forced herself to go to the cinema knowing that otherwise she would grow increasingly depressed at home . |
| 15 | Busy mothers ma be particularly glad of an opportunity to listen at home of they find themselves tied to the house . |
| 16 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
| 17 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 18 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 19 | When he excused himself to go to the bathroom Simone turned to her , her dark eyes shining . |