Example sentences of "[verb] myself [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 2 | I visualized Alison as living in a classic North Oxford mansion set on a bosky avenue amid the murmuring of innumerable dons , so I was surprised to find myself directed up the hill to Headington . |
| 3 | On my last visit to Lewis I found myself repelled by the use of derogatory nicknames , and could n't understand why I was reacting so violently . |
| 4 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 5 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 6 | I found myself revising with the small colloquia that lay around the grassy precincts of the university . |
| 7 | I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . |
| 8 | I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more . |
| 9 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 10 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 11 | I felt a thump on my back and an instant later found myself propelled along the winding lane at close to racing speed , courtesy of Steve , fourth member of the Peugeot team out for a training run . |
| 12 | Said the communique De Benedetti sent out by facsimile about an hour after his meeting with the judges , which the paper said seemed to be written in his own hand : ‘ Several times , I resisted the vexations of the regime , in some occasions I resigned myself to accept them , but only when I found myself faced with the necessity of defending the survival of the company and the thousands of dependents and shareholders toward whom I felt a massive responsibility . |
| 13 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 14 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |
| 15 | I soon found myself engrossed in the history of the valley ; tales and stories of the turbulent times of Border wars . |
| 16 | I was inclined to laugh until I found myself shuffling along the edge of one levada , eyes fixed to avoid looking at the drop below . |
| 17 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 18 | They played ‘ ’ Invitation to the Waltz' ’ on Radio 3 this morning' — she was speaking faster and faster , edging towards the gun — ‘ such a heavenly tune , I played it at school , and suddenly found myself waltzing round the kitchen , then Ethel leapt up and waltzed with me , and I thought perhaps there is a life after Hamish . |
| 19 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
| 20 | One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt . |
| 21 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 22 | I next found myself lying at the bottom of a crude hopper of duck boards which was set on top of an irrigation dyke . |
| 23 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 24 | Having said that , I do know how overpowering they can be ; indeed , I have felt myself withering in the face of a three-year-old 's wilfulness . |
| 25 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 26 | But I think that was when I was in the sea holding on to the bit of foam , and more or less just let myself float under the water , but me arm was round the top of the bit of foam , on the surface , and I think it got burnt by the the heat off the platform then . |
| 27 | Since I hated the police , it was natural that I should feel myself aligned with the prostitutes . |
| 28 | It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often . |
| 29 | Remembering the visit to the cotton mill , on the other hand , I can see myself watching from the polished floor ; I am in the picture . |
| 30 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |