Example sentences of "[verb] myself at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 2 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 3 | I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it . |
| 4 | Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does . |
| 5 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 6 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 8 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 9 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I replied , launching myself at the Moroccan fabric , ‘ he has n't blown the gaff on my war wound , has he ? |
| 11 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 12 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 13 | I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it . |
| 14 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 15 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 16 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
| 17 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 18 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 19 | After another soothing dusk spent gazing at weirs and waterfalls , I presented myself at the Kenny Gallery , behind the bookshop . |
| 20 | On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa . |
| 21 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |
| 22 | I reproach myself at the same time . |
| 23 | So I shall be enjoying myself at the wedding |
| 24 | Yeah , I shall , I 'm gon na treat myself at the end of each month |
| 25 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm pleading with you and mocking myself at the same time : how can you bear to resist ? ’ |
| 27 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 28 | Splashing through the dark flood , I was again throwing myself at the door when a key turned in its great lock and it opened . |