Example sentences of "[verb] myself [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | there was rather a large congregation , and I was late , I found myself sitting more to the front than usual , in fact opposite the lectern . |
| 2 | I found myself snowed under from the start . |
| 3 | When Webern conducted student concerts I often found myself caught up in the riots . |
| 4 | How stop myself swinging down through the branches to help unload her little car ? |
| 5 | He walked into the sunlight at the edge of the colonnade , stretched his arms and fingers , and with another gesture to me to help myself passed back inside the room . |
| 6 | ‘ Instead I find myself acting also in the capacity of lady 's maid and sick-nurse , for neither of which occupations have I the least experience . |
| 7 | John Thaw 's Inspector has lately become virtually paralysed by his pain and disgust , and his psychological travails have tended to hijack the plots — I find myself watching mainly for the architecture and the music . |
| 8 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 9 | ‘ I find myself weeping alone after the service . ’ |
| 10 | When I 'm at a crossroads , if I find myself going back to the same place I had a happy encounter , I deliberately go the other way , so I do n't become a slave to habit . |
| 11 | Next evening , bruised and with minor cuts and a cracked arm , I forced myself to go back to the three bars though , by then , very nervous . |
| 12 | The shock delayed any panic and I forced myself to walk across to the body and look at the face . |