Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do .
2 South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward .
3 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 . )
4 Personally , I have a basic level of awareness which I raise if I find myself in a place or situation which could prove a problem .
5 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 .
6 Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match .
7 While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital .
8 Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled .
9 Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me .
10 When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together .
11 Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ?
12 ‘ Beware the falconer with the clean glove , ’ they say , and certainly I was looking forward to getting my glove dirty — at least metaphorically — with some practical experience when I booked myself on a falconry course on Bodmin Moor in the summer of 1988 .
13 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 .
14 So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question .
15 When I see myself in the mirror I realise why ; I am very unattractive .
16 Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard .
17 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 .
18 I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ .
19 The vast majority of academic writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports .
20 Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me .
21 During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma .
22 ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion .
23 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 .
24 As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions .
25 As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me .
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