Example sentences of "find myself [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pray to find myself again |
| 2 | I would hate to find myself part of any anti-Diana conspiracy , but it did cross my mind that some of her critics were right when they claimed that she deliberately sought to dominate family photographs . |
| 3 | ‘ The problems came when I started to find myself more and more entrenched in the business side of things , and unable to actually design stuff like before . |
| 4 | It was a strange land to find myself in and one in which I observed many phenomena . |
| 5 | I awoke to find myself still standing before the water-colour painting of the curled iron gate . |
| 6 | I found myself just doing things without even thinking about them — my fingers seemed to work away on their own . |
| 7 | I found myself aground in the middle of the loch , firmly wedged on one such stump , and the only way out of the problem was to leap overboard and shove . |
| 8 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 9 | I found myself not only enjoying the birds , but the flowers as well . |
| 10 | Lacking nose-wheel steering , directional control is achieved by differential braking , but this was not difficult after a few initial experimental wiggles — although even at the end of the day I still found myself pointlessly pushing the rudder pedals on the corners . |
| 11 | When he finally got on his feet , Roger seemed unduly keen , and I found myself unexpectedly on the defensive . |
| 12 | On waking I found myself unexpectedly , profoundly , homesick . |
| 13 | I found myself somewhere quiet . |
| 14 | For some reason ( and I really ca n't remember what I was doing there ) one day I found myself rather out of order at the opening of a new leather shop in Hoxton . |
| 15 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 16 | ‘ I even found myself very briefly attached to the US 8th Army Air Force ! |
| 17 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 18 | At the age of 24 I found myself back in Corntonvale prison , this time doing a 5 month sentence . |
| 19 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 20 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
| 21 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 22 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
| 23 | Sitting at breakfast on the verandah of Bombay 's Sun'n'Sand hotel , some while after reading Philip Callahan 's Tuning in to Nature , I found myself quietly observing a highway of tiny , high speed ants as they took a specific path to and from their nest under the edge of the patio , gathering up enticing goodies from further down the flowerbed . |
| 24 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 25 | I wish to state however that there were two areas in his evidence which I found myself totally unable to accept . |
| 26 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |
| 27 | Half of them in self-defence because I found myself so attracted to you . |
| 28 | So far as the development of my interests in China was concerned , I continued frequent visits with Joe Jack , the cobbler , and found myself more frequently patronising the Canton Cafe to talk with another Chinese friend , George Wong , whose father owned the small restaurant . |
| 29 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 30 | Now it must be confessed that no one in that situation would be likely to justify his choice by saying ‘ In recalling the tastes I found myself spontaneously moved to take the peach ’ . |