Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] the " 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | then I pedalled myself blue in the face on the Exercise Machine . |
| 7 | I threw myself flat beside the corpse . |
| 8 | P.S. I am Gabby 's biggest fan so I consider myself neutral on the Graf/Seles controversy . |
| 9 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt myself responsible for the problem of radio-active contamination from nuclear explosions ’ , he wrote later . |
| 11 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And besides , she found herself glad of the breathing-space . |
| 16 | Barbs was one of those not unusual women who consider themselves beautiful in the teeth of the evidence . |
| 17 | As she felt her way cautiously along , she pressed herself flat against the wood for support . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By late March they were in Bologna , where Wolfgang was put through his paces by the famous theorist Padre Martini , who professed himself amazed at the boy 's ability to work out complex fugues on a brief given subject . |
| 20 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 21 | Thus they laid themselves open to the jibe that , while demanding ‘ Arms for Spain' , they were indifferent to the defence of Britain . |
| 22 | Having conspired to ignore the deathbed wishes of Henry 's wife Ruth ( Vanessa Redgrave ) , they leave themselves vulnerable to the forces of emancipation they most dread . |
| 23 | Even now he says he was surprised by the appointment , which caused him to make himself unavailable for the British Lions ' tour of South Africa . |
| 24 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |
| 25 | He made himself ill with the worry . |
| 26 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
| 27 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 28 | He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit . |
| 29 | He shook himself free of the hood and pulled the shawl off his head , his face burning in humiliation . |
| 30 | David Nobbs i in London for the preview and he professes himself pleased with the TV version . |