Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pn reflx] on the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . ) |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
5 | I busied myself on the shore |
6 | I put myself on the line for him once already and look where it got me : thirty-six hours in jail ; Interrogations every four hours . |
7 | This time I patted myself on the back all the way to the hotel . |