Example sentences of "[verb] myself [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Prince Philip was interested to her that I already held the bronze and silver awards and asked me whether I had enjoyed myself going for gold , ’ said Christine . |
| 2 | I first met Basil in Wakefield during the spring of 1959 and was fortunate to find myself working with him on the West Riding vacation course at Ilkley later that year . |
| 3 | During the first match I was amazed to find myself sitting beside a Church of Ireland minister , a Free Presbyterian Minister and a Roman Catholic priest . |
| 4 | is totally different so I did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds |
| 5 | Moreover , I discovered the city to be one of many charms ; time and again , I found myself wandering past delightful rows of old timber-fronted houses , or crossing some little stone footbridge over one of the many streams that flow through the city . |
| 6 | Although I was less ready than before to agree that such an objective was desirable , I nevertheless found myself entering into his plans . |
| 7 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the meantime , despite my reservations , I found myself reflecting on headvoice 's idea : I had to admit , it might make a story . |
| 10 | I recently found myself speaking to Geoffrey Norman , the Secretary of the Magistrates ' Association , about court procedures . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | I found myself revising with the small colloquia that lay around the grassy precincts of the university . |
| 13 | I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . |
| 14 | I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more . |
| 15 | Somewhere nearby a field of broad beans was in full flower and as the exotic scent drifted across I found myself inhaling with half-closed eyes as though straining to discern the ingredients of the glorious melange . |
| 16 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 17 | I 'd known her , and her husband Alan Rakoff , for a long time and as I began searching for someone to play Barbara I just found myself thinking about her . |
| 18 | The range of everyday articles on the shelves reminded me abruptly of things at home , and I found myself thinking of my last night before leaving London . |
| 19 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 20 | I did n't bother to switch off the tape , and found myself listening to a religious programme , which suggested that suffering , guilt and penance is the path towards righteousness . |
| 21 | and found myself listening to Gav and Janice . |
| 22 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 25 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 26 | I found myself looking at toupees the other day , horrible things , rat skins ! ’ |
| 27 | I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was . |
| 28 | I was inclined to laugh until I found myself shuffling along the edge of one levada , eyes fixed to avoid looking at the drop below . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They played ‘ ’ Invitation to the Waltz' ’ on Radio 3 this morning' — she was speaking faster and faster , edging towards the gun — ‘ such a heavenly tune , I played it at school , and suddenly found myself waltzing round the kitchen , then Ethel leapt up and waltzed with me , and I thought perhaps there is a life after Hamish . |