Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |
| 2 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 3 | I only saved myself from falling by clutching at the arm of the oak settle . |
| 4 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 5 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 6 | I thus contented myself by saying simply : |
| 7 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 8 | I just keep myself to myself . |
| 9 | So I just keep myself to myself . |
| 10 | Maybe I just fooled myself into thinking Hambury was the name , I ca n't remember now . |
| 11 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 12 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 13 | And when I 'm with the other I just feel myself to be a better person . |
| 14 | All Eva remembers is lying on the sofa wondering if she was going to die , and saying , " Well , Lord , if this is the end of my life I 'll just have to say how thankful I am , and what a wonderful privilege its been , but if it 's your will for me to live then I just give myself to you all the more . |
| 15 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |
| 16 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
| 17 | I already hate myself for having taken the job , I know it was a mistake . |
| 18 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 19 | The Mexican atmosphere was contagious and I soon found myself on a crowded coach bound for Mexico . |
| 20 | I needed it because when I finally disentangled myself from Zaria 's legs ( another advantage noted : no claws ) , I padded over to see what the noise was . |
| 21 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 22 | I always prided myself on not being afraid . |
| 23 | I always position myself on the side in which the rabbits hit the net . |
| 24 | ‘ I always take myself as a starting point when it comes to songs , going on to explore situations in a manner that is very sound-oriented , ’ she says , rather vaguely . |
| 25 | I totally lost myself in the remoteness . |
| 26 | ‘ I bought them all , ’ he remembers , ‘ John Hedgecoe 's book of this , David Bailey 's book of that , and I totally immersed myself in them for six months . |
| 27 | If great writing may principally be a matter of fine and large spirit expressed in outstanding technique , to my eye , as I still acquaint myself with him , Johnson triumphs by combining a welcoming mind with an economy of expression , so that he shares the maximum of observed experience in the minimum of words . |
| 28 | And Cornelius Rooney says : ‘ I still blame myself for Patrick 's death . ’ |
| 29 | I still warm myself on memories of family parties where Uncle Brian would sing ‘ Unchained Melody ’ into a glass , Aunty Rosy would become more argumentative after her third sherry , Uncle Harold would lecture on the brilliance of Enoch Powell , and Dad would lead us in a community rendering of : |
| 30 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |