Example sentences of "myself on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed .
2 I pride myself on the efforts I have made to retain my individual values while working for my company .
3 I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down .
4 Brained myself on the boot lid again .
5 ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’
6 I made myself another coffee , extended myself on the sofa — my legs quivery with fatigue — opened the folder , pulled out the sheets of paper and started to read .
7 Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor .
8 I 'm not patting myself on the back — it 's a highly competitive business and one needs selfish , single-minded dedication to succeed , but because female comics were rare in my day , competition was negligible , and I was able to be generous .
9 This time I patted myself on the back all the way to the hotel .
10 John has found much to do which will not require to be again done in N.S.W. I still hope we may not exceed two years in our absence and I think John is as anxious as myself on the subject .
11 I busied myself on the shore
12 I 'll try to lose myself on the way into the factory . ’
13 No , oh yes , nick all the cards and played myself on the tune
14 I said miserably , throwing myself on the cab-driver 's mercy :
15 ‘ Maybe I was n't disgracing myself on the park , but I was cheating the Sheffield fans and manager Jimmy Sirrell .
16 Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum .
17 ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 .
18 Finally I decided to decline politely and throw myself on the mercy of an acquaintance instead . ’
19 Looking back I realise that , if there ever was a moment when I might have quit , admitted defeat and abandoned the Cathedral to throw myself on the mercy of school , home or child guidance clinic , this was that moment .
20 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 . )
21 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 .
22 I walk along the side of the motel scratching myself on the pebble dash , for carelessness .
23 CATHERINE Crossing the road , tripping over something , burning myself on the stove , people who take advantage of you , though sometimes being blind protects me too .
24 I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village .
25 As in the case of last year 's most successful film , Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , I find myself on the side of the audiences .
26 Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her .
27 I always position myself on the side in which the rabbits hit the net .
28 I got to my feet , supporting myself on the side of the shelter .
29 And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience .
30 I see myself on the train , in holiday mood , then walking past sunlit honeyed stone walls with doorways opening into quiet inner worlds of lawns and laughter .
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