Example sentences of "i [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinning the laminate onto my dress , I launch myself into the throng . |
| 2 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 3 | I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share . |
| 4 | I associate myself with the expressions of sympathy . |
| 5 | I shift myself from the mirror to the window , to see what she does . |
| 6 | I found myself considering the protocol — an absurdity in the face of my determination to flout convention with regard to the funeral arrangements ! |
| 7 | Again I felt that terrible pain and sickness , but a few seconds later I found myself with the face and body and character of Henry Jekyll once more . |
| 8 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |
| 9 | 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 . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 12 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I found myself in the Alps with a narrow pass before me , began to ascend the rough and desolate track . |
| 18 | I found myself in the centre of town , going through the busy Saturday crowd . |
| 19 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 20 | I found myself in the kitchen , eating sugar from Lord Pabham 's hand . |
| 21 | Having done the recording , I found myself in the dressing-room in tears . |
| 22 | Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse . |
| 23 | A helpful , somewhat overstated hotel doorman gave me instant directions , from which I found myself in the shadow of Vine Street facing what seemed to be a series of rear entrances to a rather less than impressive warehouse . |
| 24 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 25 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
| 26 | I busied myself on the shore |
| 27 | I let myself into the cellar , locked the door behind me . |
| 28 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |
| 29 | I consoled myself with the thought that he would n't find out from me ; there was enough trouble at home already . |
| 30 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |