Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 2 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
| 4 | A feeling of terror mounted in me , and I dragged myself to the telephone and rang Émile . |
| 5 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
| 6 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 7 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 8 | My friend and I settled ourselves onto the snow and uncorked a well-chilled bottle of wine in the hope of getting merry . |
| 9 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 10 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 11 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 12 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 14 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 15 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 16 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 17 | Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse . |
| 18 | My superior self had taken over-call it the result of time-shock , if you will , but I felt myself in the presence of myth and , by association , accepted myself as mythical ! |
| 19 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 20 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 21 | While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital . |
| 22 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 23 | Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me . |
| 24 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 25 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 26 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 27 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 28 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 29 | I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ . |
| 30 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |