Example sentences of "[verb] myself [verb] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | D' you know that I cry myself to sleep every night ? |
| 2 | Was appalled to find myself given a first task of writing a blurb for a feature on the dreadful Gaye Bykers On Acid . |
| 3 | I am slightly irritated to find myself thinking the same thought at the same point every evening , but also rather comforted . |
| 4 | I used to find myself walking the landing bladed up and it only needed one word out of place and I 'd turn them into a Tetley Tea Bag and I 'd never get out . |
| 5 | Erm , I 'd consider myself to have an eating disorder but I do n't have anorexia or bulimia . |
| 6 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 7 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 8 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 9 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 10 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 11 | I was supposed to be investigating the latest camcorder craze to sweep America — amateur home porn — but found myself dreading the thought of viewing the tapes . |
| 12 | I also found myself facing an astonished mandroid guard , who began to reach for his holstered stun-gun . |
| 13 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
| 14 | So I found myself writing a novel for people like me , primarily for a black audience . |
| 15 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 16 | Having come across no obvious Selina lookalike among the ladies , I found myself completing an editorial stress quiz , delete where inapplicable , in which your nicotine and alcohol consumption was set against various stress-donating hardships you might or might not be falling foul of . |
| 17 | At 3.00 pm I had my first ‘ informal ’ meeting with the CIEFL staff and students , and found myself addressing an audience of some 40 persons on communicative grammar and semantics . |
| 18 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 19 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 20 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 21 | Getting out to inspect the damage , I found myself confronting a shocked Alison Kraemer . |
| 22 | When the path narrowed , we had to proceed in single file , and I found myself leading the way , with my aunt following closely behind and my father behind her . |
| 23 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 24 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 25 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 26 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 27 | I sat by Toby , and stopped myself asking the questions which were dashing through my head . |
| 28 | I caught myself taking a quick peek in the mirror behind the bar to see if my tie was straight . |
| 29 | caught myself doing a having a piss again . |
| 30 | The UK delegation was to comprise myself heading the delegation and two principal inspectors , Geoffrey Wilkinson and Peter Bardon , who subsequently became Chief and Deputy Chief Inspector respectively . |