Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After coffee I announced myself eager for the fleecy crook of Morpheus ' shoulder , and they buggered off . |
| 2 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
| 3 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 4 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 5 | On departure , many of the younger guests , deeming themselves insufficiently primed , were about to ‘ go on ’ somewhere , and in the end I found myself alone on the pavement with Eliot . |
| 6 | I found myself alone with a man the skin of whose face had the texture of hide , tanned the colour of stout . |
| 7 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 8 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 9 | then I pedalled myself blue in the face on the Exercise Machine . |
| 10 | I threw myself flat beside the corpse . |
| 11 | P.S. I am Gabby 's biggest fan so I consider myself neutral on the Graf/Seles controversy . |
| 12 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt myself responsible for the problem of radio-active contamination from nuclear explosions ’ , he wrote later . |
| 14 | ‘ You got yourself involved in an explosion . |
| 15 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 16 | Some of these arguments were overstated ; nevertheless , power in the Senate in that era was , without doubt , highly centralized with most leading positions held by senior conservatives , or by those who made themselves acceptable to the ruling élite . |
| 17 | She 's so grown up that she shouted herself hoarse through a bloody pantomime not two hours ago . |
| 18 | And before very long you found yourself involved with a project which looked as if it was actually going to take over your life . |
| 19 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 20 | Her mouth parting ardently beneath his , she began to unbutton his shirt with unsteady fingers , then slithered lower to kiss his bare brown chest , exulting in the thunder of his heart for a moment before she found herself flat on the sofa as Penry slid her jersey over her head , then dispensed with the scrap of satin beneath . |
| 21 | She found herself capable of a courage that startled her . |
| 22 | And besides , she found herself glad of the breathing-space . |
| 23 | Barbs was one of those not unusual women who consider themselves beautiful in the teeth of the evidence . |
| 24 | As she felt her way cautiously along , she pressed herself flat against the wood for support . |
| 25 | You wo n't be the first or last man or woman who gets themself involved in a holiday romance . |
| 26 | You wo n't be the first or last man or woman who gets themselves involved in a holiday romance . |
| 27 | If you find yourself close to a shoal of feeding chub , take advantage and watch . |
| 28 | That becomes only too clear if you find yourself hungry in a tropical rain forest . |
| 29 | If you venture past the crowds to see the Poussins , you find yourself alone with a collection which is as lamentably hung as ever . |
| 30 | And talking of police , it 's a dead cert that the very day a Neighbourhood Watch leaflet arrives , detailing all the recent burglaries in your area , is the one day you find yourself alone in the house . |