Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |
| 2 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 3 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 4 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 5 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 6 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |
| 7 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 8 | The Mexican atmosphere was contagious and I soon found myself on a crowded coach bound for Mexico . |
| 9 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 10 | I always position myself on the side in which the rabbits hit the net . |
| 11 | ‘ I always take myself as a starting point when it comes to songs , going on to explore situations in a manner that is very sound-oriented , ’ she says , rather vaguely . |
| 12 | I totally lost myself in the remoteness . |
| 13 | I also remind myself of the effect upon the plaintiff 's fathers career , of his decision to give up work in order to attend the plaintiff . |
| 14 | Shall I now wrap myself in the duvet and slip into the shower for a misty out-of-focus silhouette ? ’ |
| 15 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
| 16 | I often find myself in the middle , accused of reaction by both parties . |
| 17 | I was usually summoned by telephone and invited round to Downing Street at 8 p.m. , when Wilson would be alone in the Cabinet room , which he preferred to any office or study , and where , sitting at the long Cabinet table , I often found myself in the seat normally occupied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and enjoyed moments of brief delusional glory ! |
| 18 | ‘ I simply forgot myself for a moment , that 's all , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 19 | The normal processes of consultation took place , and after one or two false alarms , during which I kidded myself that I was perfectly all right , I ultimately found myself in the regulation NHS nightshirt , sitting amidst expectant mothers , in the gynaecology section of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital , waiting to sample the wonders of the ultra-scan . |
| 20 | It was 15 years before I again strapped myself into a microlight — and that was only after acquiring a full Group A licence . |
| 21 | Most extraordinary thing : as wife shoves high-chair into car 's rear suspension and I quietly herniate myself on a couple of bags filled with Devon mud and light aggregate thieved from local quarry by children , strange sense of loss creeps over me . |
| 22 | Because some of the features are handled by add-on software , like Inset and Star Exchange , you suddenly find yourself with a slightly different set of menu commands to learn . |
| 23 | If you kill the people you love — or run away from them — you only smash yourself in the end . |
| 24 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 25 | She so endeared herself to the library staff that , as soon as a post became free , they organized it so it could be part-time to fit Susan 's family commitments . |
| 26 | Fearing to open it , she nevertheless forced herself across the room , but when it swung open a maid in a black dress and smart white apron stood before her . |
| 27 | Why then did she not inform herself of the purport and effect of the transfer before signing it ? |
| 28 | She scarcely recognised herself in the woman who confronted her . |
| 29 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 30 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |