Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pn reflx] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 3 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
| 4 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 5 | 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 . ) |
| 6 | ‘ Beware the falconer with the clean glove , ’ they say , and certainly I was looking forward to getting my glove dirty — at least metaphorically — with some practical experience when I booked myself on a falconry course on Bodmin Moor in the summer of 1988 . |