Example sentences of "[verb] myself [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 2 | I should n't have let myself fall in love with him ! she thought angrily . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll consider myself put in my place . ’ |
| 4 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 5 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 6 | ‘ This operation in Latvia , ’ I found myself speaking in a whisper , ‘ what is it doing that these machines will do for the rest of Russia ? ’ |
| 7 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 8 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |
| 9 | I soon found myself engrossed in the history of the valley ; tales and stories of the turbulent times of Border wars . |
| 10 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 11 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
| 12 | I found myself specialising in equipment like Alpine , Rockford Fosgate , JBL , Phoenix Gold , gold plated connectors , and even gold plated battery terminals ! |
| 13 | Having said that , I do know how overpowering they can be ; indeed , I have felt myself withering in the face of a three-year-old 's wilfulness . |
| 14 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 15 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 16 | I hear myself scream in the treble , and , Ahhh ! and Ahhh ! again . |
| 17 | I ca n't speak for everyone , but whenever I find myself eating in a pub it 's usually because raging hunger has overcome the judgement of discriminating palate . |
| 18 | I slightly lengthened my stride , feeling self-conscious as I always do if I find myself marching in step with martial music , when I deliberately break step and try to walk between the beats , as it were , in as unmilitary a way as possible . |
| 19 | I know some folk wo n't change for anybody they just go harping on in their dialect and er well this fellow said some visitors just do n't understand him I always find myself translating in a situation like that . |
| 20 | You know I have to admit my knowledge of your country is abysmally small — but the more I see of it , the more I find myself falling in love with it . ’ |
| 21 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 22 | … having myself graduated in Business over 40 years ago , there seems to be a remarkable cycle in which we return to particular models every few decades . |
| 23 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 24 | When I look back on my marriage I ca n't believe what a fool I was to allow myself to stay in that situation . |
| 25 | I tell myself that I will let myself lie in bed for another five minutes though I stipulate that I am not allowed to go back to sleep and that I have to count out the five-minutes in my head . |
| 26 | And he does seem to like me , but I dare n't let myself fall in love with him . |
| 27 | Mind you I 'd get myself embarrassed in front of sixty million viewers if I was on her money |
| 28 | I know I should put this girl out of my mind , and I have stopped myself getting in touch with her again . |
| 29 | I know I should put this girl out of my mind , and I have stopped myself getting in touch with her again . |
| 30 | I decided to give the authorities the slip and went through the bathroom window of the hotel and got myself lost in Moscow . |