Example sentences of "[verb] myself [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 2 | I did n't go into the parents ' room but went on beyond it to find myself in the rear part of the carriage , at the very end of the train . |
| 3 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 4 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 5 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
| 6 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 7 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 8 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 9 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 10 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 11 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 12 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 13 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 14 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 15 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 16 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 17 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 18 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I replied , launching myself at the Moroccan fabric , ‘ he has n't blown the gaff on my war wound , has he ? |
| 20 | I have permitted myself throughout the useful abbreviation ‘ iff ’ for ‘ if and only if ’ . |
| 21 | " This is Miss Graham , " I said , surprising myself by the furtive urgency in my own voice . |
| 22 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
| 23 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 24 | WILLIAMS : Sir , the French Telemachus , for I am about perfecting myself in the French tongue . |
| 25 | The Clwydian Hills , rising to the south and cloaked in cloud , looked wonderfully alluring : so I threw myself into the long climb with far more vigour than I might have done normally . |
| 26 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 27 | It was difficult for me to put myself in the Guérigny frame of mind , to accommodate both the knowledge of a beloved 's death and the sense of her imminent return . |
| 28 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
| 29 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 30 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |