Example sentences of "i [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you know that I cry myself to sleep every night ? |
| 2 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 3 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 4 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 8 | So I found myself writing a novel for people like me , primarily for a black audience . |
| 9 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 12 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 13 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 14 | I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there . |
| 15 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 16 | To my amused horror , I find myself urging the women to try baking buns ( more sugar , more profit ! ) and working out the amounts for a trial run . |
| 17 | Right now I find myself regretting the fact that we have done very little to replace them . |
| 18 | Consequently I find myself spending a lot of time looking at chairs in museums , shops , exhibitions and other peoples ' houses . |
| 19 | Confronted with Dolle I felt myself becoming a punk mafia dude . |
| 20 | I saw myself leaving the room , packing a suitcase , writing a note . |
| 21 | So I went myself to see the undertaker , select the bearers , and arrange all the funeral details . |
| 22 | ‘ I forced myself to write a chapter or two about the good things he did : getting rid of dead wood in the bureau ; eliminating corruption among his agents ; setting up a fingerprint system , an FBI laboratory that could serve as a technical resource for police forces all over the country . |
| 23 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |