Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together .
2 I mean myself as a councillor I think i if you 're a councillor you should be involved in the strike in one way or another you know .
3 So the ones I definitely know I 'm going to get appointments with , if I go and do that , I put myself into a comfort zone do n't I ?
4 It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice .
5 Now that I seek myself in a serpent
6 I open myself as a channel to the Light .
7 I open myself as a channel to the Light .
8 When I get back to base , bruised and battered , I brace myself for a reception that will make the Day of Judgment look like a Sunday School picnic .
9 Sarah : I define myself as a socialist lesbian feminist , but of course that in some sense begs more questions than it answers .
10 I lower myself into a contained eddy of water and lean back against a seat of rounded stone .
11 I lower myself into a firewood chair , placing the legs carefully on solid planks of floorboard .
12 I find myself on a small brick platform about twenty feet above a man-made , well-bricked channel which follows a straight course through the factories and warehouses .
13 Personally , I have a basic level of awareness which I raise if I find myself in a place or situation which could prove a problem .
14 ‘ You see , I find myself in a similar position . ’
15 The expression " New Deal " was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination as its presidential candidate in July 1932 , when he said " I pledge you , I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people . "
16 Christ , I ask myself in a panic , how the shagging hell do you SIT ?
17 I regard myself as a bit of a fatalist .
18 I regard myself as a service provider and I have to build good relations with other members of the company .
19 I help myself to a drink and stare entranced at the bald patch in the shag-pile over by the door .
20 South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward .
21 I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’
22 I see myself as a voluntary servant of the composer , not as his slave .
23 But I think I 'll stay here but I see myself as a internationalist as well .
24 With respect , I see myself as a master craftsman , but even craftsmen need quality tools to produce a work of art .
25 But I see myself in a different life
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