Example sentences of "find myself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 2 | I did n't go into the parents ' room but went on beyond it to find myself in the rear part of the carriage , at the very end of the train . |
| 3 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 4 | To find myself in the company of so many eminent , discerning and open-minded independent shopkeepers , affords me pleasure beyond expression . |
| 5 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 6 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 7 | I found myself considering the protocol — an absurdity in the face of my determination to flout convention with regard to the funeral arrangements ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 11 | I thought I was being taken to the prison but instead found myself outside the door of Le Coq d'Or . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 14 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 22 | I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 25 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |
| 28 | 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 . ) |
| 29 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 30 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |