Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls .
2 I found myself considering the protocol — an absurdity in the face of my determination to flout convention with regard to the funeral arrangements !
3 Again I felt that terrible pain and sickness , but a few seconds later I found myself with the face and body and character of Henry Jekyll once more .
4 Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed .
5 But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . )
6 IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere .
7 Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her .
8 I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time .
9 ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’
10 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 .
11 Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions .
12 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 .
13 I found myself in the Alps with a narrow pass before me , began to ascend the rough and desolate track .
14 I found myself in the centre of town , going through the busy Saturday crowd .
15 I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways .
16 I found myself in the kitchen , eating sugar from Lord Pabham 's hand .
17 Having done the recording , I found myself in the dressing-room in tears .
18 Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse .
19 A helpful , somewhat overstated hotel doorman gave me instant directions , from which I found myself in the shadow of Vine Street facing what seemed to be a series of rear entrances to a rather less than impressive warehouse .
20 Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’
21 Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks .
22 I busied myself on the shore
23 I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there .
24 I consoled myself with the thought that he would n't find out from me ; there was enough trouble at home already .
25 For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’
26 I hauled myself to the top of the wall , looking back as I prepared to jump .
27 Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed .
28 I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it .
29 Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me .
30 Alter that night I threw myself into the struggle on Mrs Rumney 's behalf .
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