Example sentences of "and [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my fur-lined leather jacket from the back of the chair and zipped myself into it . |
| 2 | Alter that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag . |
| 3 | When I was scared in the middle of the night at home , I 'd lie and comfort myself by talking in whispers to Somebody . |
| 4 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 5 | In the face of thumb joints with developing arthritis , I decided to lash out and treat myself to a Silver Reed punching machine , PM10 . |
| 6 | Yeah I I might go and treat myself to some today . |
| 7 | He had me smashing my helmet against the car 's supporting struts on every corner and bracing myself with both legs against the bulkhead at every braking point . |
| 8 | If human communication were a simple matter of reciprocally exchanged words , if words had no resonances beyond themselves , I might have been proud to be cast in such a role , and either self-confident enough in my ability to fulfil it , or else realistic enough to modify my directives and declare myself in favour of some more modest role . |
| 9 | I went back to Desmond and got myself into more trouble because as soon as I got out I wanted money . |
| 10 | I was spitting with fear and frustration as I yanked on some clothes and flung myself into the control area . |
| 11 | Finally I decided to decline politely and throw myself on the mercy of an acquaintance instead . ’ |
| 12 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 13 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 14 | I stick the fire on in my room and warm myself by it for a bit . |
| 15 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 16 | I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down . |
| 17 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 18 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 21 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 22 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 23 | I went on , confident of my compass , but becoming less so , and found myself in the middle of a disused airfield , among landing markers , gutted buildings and a wrecked radar scanner . |
| 24 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 25 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 26 | I slipped past the dozing duo , and found myself in a labyrinth of corridors . |
| 27 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 28 | It was a bit stiff , and squeaked , but I went through it and found myself in yet another garden , a smaller , even more enclosed one , with higher walls , a bit like an old Tudor tennis court . |
| 29 | Well that 's why I did it because I do n't often get the opportunity to go out and enjoy myself like that . |
| 30 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |