Example sentences of "i [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After coffee I announced myself eager for the fleecy crook of Morpheus ' shoulder , and they buggered off . |
| 2 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
| 3 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 4 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 5 | On departure , many of the younger guests , deeming themselves insufficiently primed , were about to ‘ go on ’ somewhere , and in the end I found myself alone on the pavement with Eliot . |
| 6 | I found myself alone with a man the skin of whose face had the texture of hide , tanned the colour of stout . |
| 7 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 8 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 9 | then I pedalled myself blue in the face on the Exercise Machine . |
| 10 | I threw myself flat beside the corpse . |
| 11 | P.S. I am Gabby 's biggest fan so I consider myself neutral on the Graf/Seles controversy . |
| 12 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt myself responsible for the problem of radio-active contamination from nuclear explosions ’ , he wrote later . |