Example sentences of "myself at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I can not say how strange it was , how peculiarly dead I felt , when I awoke to find myself at a distance from my father .
2 That is the last time I shall put myself at a loss or disadvantage for her , she decided , unable as she was to thank me .
3 ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss .
4 Pye 's new robot programme started in January 1973 , with myself at the head .
5 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 .
6 On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa .
7 I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp .
8 ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’
9 Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness .
10 I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach .
11 Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions .
12 I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now .
13 Also my teaching is squeezed into 4 days , which means that I have time to myself at the weekend , including Friday .
14 It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show .
15 I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children .
16 I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three .
17 I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it .
18 I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it .
19 Splashing through the dark flood , I was again throwing myself at the door when a key turned in its great lock and it opened .
20 When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning .
21 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 .
22 You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’
23 We 've got scouse rather than Leeds tickets for Saturday , and I think I 've got a kop ticket for myself at the Oldham game .
24 I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off .
25 After another soothing dusk spent gazing at weirs and waterfalls , I presented myself at the Kenny Gallery , behind the bookshop .
26 A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did .
27 I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic .
28 However , the main problem that concerned Pat , Gabriel and myself at the time was not so much the details of the biochemistry , but a theoretically more important matter .
29 I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . "
30 I got drunk on rhum by myself at the Rotonde and ran up and down the streets crying and ringing bells and saying ‘ Save me from this man ! ’
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