Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As I do not , as a rule , take alcohol , the one glass of sherry I had with lunch enabled me to enjoy myself with the other guests . |
2 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
3 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
4 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
5 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
6 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
9 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
10 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
11 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
12 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
13 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
14 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
15 | By chance , I found myself in the royal apartments , a long , polished gallery where the freshly waxed wood winked in the sunlight and the walls shimmered with the exquisite tapestries hung there . |
16 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
17 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
18 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
19 | Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands . |
20 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
21 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
22 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
23 | The Clwydian Hills , rising to the south and cloaked in cloud , looked wonderfully alluring : so I threw myself into the long climb with far more vigour than I might have done normally . |
24 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
25 | Feeling as if I was still asleep and having a very curious dream , I settled myself on the other side of the hearth from the stranger and took a sip of cocoa . |
26 | I accustomed myself to the mephitic stench . |
27 | After a quick wash and shave , dressed in a freshly pressed kilt and battledress blouse , polished boots and all , I presented myself with the other Commandos at the orderly room to get my hands on that very important rail pass . |
28 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
29 | After a few enquiries at Brigade H.Q I presented myself outside the big house at 2 p.m. wearing kilt , polished boots ( which took some doing ) and , of course , carrying the bagpipes . |
30 | I freed myself from the antiquated strait jacket of his verbose speech patterns . |