Example sentences of "myself at the " in BNC.

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1 Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls .
2 When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning .
3 I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp .
4 After another soothing dusk spent gazing at weirs and waterfalls , I presented myself at the Kenny Gallery , behind the bookshop .
5 I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it .
6 I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach .
7 You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’
8 The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter .
9 I got drunk on rhum by myself at the Rotonde and ran up and down the streets crying and ringing bells and saying ‘ Save me from this man ! ’
10 I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it .
11 I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children .
12 Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does .
13 Pye 's new robot programme started in January 1973 , with myself at the head .
14 At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 .
15 A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did .
16 It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show .
17 Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions .
18 I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic .
19 ‘ I 'm pleading with you and mocking myself at the same time : how can you bear to resist ? ’
20 If any British club is interested in ‘ competing ’ against the Austrians , please could they either contact Mr Michael Stifel , CC Kitzbühel , or myself at the Austrian National Tourist Office in London .
21 ‘ Oh God , ’ I replied , launching myself at the Moroccan fabric , ‘ he has n't blown the gaff on my war wound , has he ?
22 I reproach myself at the same time .
23 I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off .
24 However , the main problem that concerned Pat , Gabriel and myself at the time was not so much the details of the biochemistry , but a theoretically more important matter .
25 On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa .
26 Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness .
27 The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag .
28 I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now .
29 Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs .
30 ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’
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