Example sentences of "[verb] myself [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I MOVED FORWARD , out of the blackest sleep , to find myself surrounded by doctors … |
| 2 | On my last visit to Lewis I found myself repelled by the use of derogatory nicknames , and could n't understand why I was reacting so violently . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me about Joyce , ’ I said quickly , and found myself fixed by a menacing leer . |
| 4 | It said : ‘ On my way to the courtyard this morning , I went into your gallery as a sanctuary and found myself surrounded by startling , horrific and disturbing images which yet had a positive and uplifting effect . |
| 5 | For the first time in my life I found myself surrounded by friends — friends whom I found interesting , and friends who appeared to find me interesting , bright and witty , despite my all-too-evident disadvantages . |
| 6 | I wrote off to Time Out and in early February 1981 found myself surrounded by eight or nine other blind socialists discussing the formation of the Alternative Talking Newspapers Collective . |
| 7 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 8 | I found myself superseded by much younger men , and so resigned and was duly pensioned off . |
| 9 | I found myself frustrated by unanswered questions at every turn : why are the shields of Prince William and Harry blank in the College of Arms 's pedigree book — and why does Mark Phillips 's coat of arms have a horse jumping over a small white-flowered plant ? |
| 10 | As I get older I find myself tormented by anxieties of this nature , the anxieties about things one will never do . |
| 11 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 12 | I will take it easy and I will have myself checked by a doctor . |
| 13 | Be assured however that if I can in any manner contribute to the success of your efforts , either by the proposal of questions for discussion , or subjects for Papers or giving my opinions on any part of the Veterinary Art which you may think proper to investigate I shall at all times feel myself honored by the request , & I am persuaded that Mr Sewell will be most happy to ( ? add ) his exertions in any way congenial to your wishes . |
| 14 | I still put myself to sleep by thinking about not lying on a cold pavement covered with newspapers . |
| 15 | People on our needs register are not swimming in cash , they 're not people who think I shall have a cushy number here , I 'll go and get myself housed by the local authority . |
| 16 | ‘ You see , ’ I explained , ‘ for two years I 've had to shout to make myself understood by the giants . |