Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 2 | I mean myself as a councillor I think i if you 're a councillor you should be involved in the strike in one way or another you know . |
| 3 | And then I got myself in a knot cos there was a car coming up the road |
| 4 | On a wet Wednesday in March 1987 , as part of a short survey - not scientifically conducted , but as part of a personal investigation into the cause of alienation among secondary age children — I found myself with a group of seven girls and one boy , between the ages of twelve and fifteen , at the Didcot Health Centre at four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ I found myself on a level with the whole of the French people ; my new companions … were miners , navvies , workers in metal and wood . |
| 6 | IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 . |
| 7 | When I tried to place a bet at the Tote at Cheltenham not long ago , I found myself behind a queue of Irish priests . |
| 8 | And yet , alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema : the transition from day to night ; the day for night of the viewing ; the transition back to daylight . |
| 9 | I found myself in a grey council estate that faced the river . |
| 10 | I found myself in a smart town square surrounded by glittering bars , hotels and souvenir shops . |
| 11 | All of a sudden , I found myself in a festive gathering , as I had absent-mindedly gatecrashed an exhibition launch at the Gallery of Photography . |
| 12 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 13 | She barked back , the door slid open wide enough for me to enter and I found myself in a roomful of dames all with rigor mortis of the third-finger-of-the-left-hand . |
| 14 | I found myself in a rough cubicle with a torn curtain hanging to approximately knee-height . |
| 15 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 16 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 17 | I found myself in a large room , where the curtains were closed to allow no daylight in , and the candles were lit . |
| 18 | Suddenly I found myself in a sack much larger than my body , but completely dark . |
| 19 | So it was that eventually I found myself in a hospital in Swindon close to other victims of Larry Foot . |
| 20 | and I found myself in a bare street . |
| 21 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 22 | Strangely , and almost coinciding with this modification to weight reduction , I found myself in a lack-of-petrol situation . |
| 23 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 24 | As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 25 | As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me . |
| 26 | Then I helped myself to a cigarette . |
| 27 | Why did I introduce myself as a sceptic about values but not about facts ? |
| 28 | But then , I told myself with a half-smile , I would be thanking a God-King . |
| 29 | ‘ Beware the falconer with the clean glove , ’ they say , and certainly I was looking forward to getting my glove dirty — at least metaphorically — with some practical experience when I booked myself on a falconry course on Bodmin Moor in the summer of 1988 . |
| 30 | I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat , and runs away with it to a corner , where he may devour it in peace , without any fear of others taking it from him . ’ |