Example sentences of "myself [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to find myself walking the landing bladed up and it only needed one word out of place and I 'd turn them into a Tetley Tea Bag and I 'd never get out . |
| 2 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 3 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 4 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 5 | I was supposed to be investigating the latest camcorder craze to sweep America — amateur home porn — but found myself dreading the thought of viewing the tapes . |
| 6 | The UK delegation was to comprise myself heading the delegation and two principal inspectors , Geoffrey Wilkinson and Peter Bardon , who subsequently became Chief and Deputy Chief Inspector respectively . |
| 7 | Right now I find myself regretting the fact that we have done very little to replace them . |
| 8 | When the path narrowed , we had to proceed in single file , and I found myself leading the way , with my aunt following closely behind and my father behind her . |
| 9 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 10 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 11 | As the mother of a nine-year-old girl , I often find myself questioning the wisdom of other parents in the light of recent attacks on young children . |
| 12 | I ca n't imagine myself having the opportunity to do something as important ever again . ’ |
| 13 | But at the moment I 'm so caught up with our construction problems I do n't see myself having the time for months ahead . |
| 14 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 15 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 16 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 17 | I saw myself leaving the room , packing a suitcase , writing a note . |
| 18 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 19 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |