Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " 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 | Pinning the laminate onto my dress , I launch myself into the throng . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I reproach myself at the same time . |
5 | I associate myself with the expressions of sympathy . |
6 | I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share . |
7 | I shift myself from the mirror to the window , to see what she does . |
8 | 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 ? |
9 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
10 | I let myself into the cellar , locked the door behind me . |
11 | Now that I seek myself in a serpent |
12 | I open myself as a channel to the Light . |
13 | I open myself as a channel to the Light . |
14 | I clutch myself above the steering-wheel . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I jab myself with the pencil But perhaps that 's a dream , too . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | I brace myself for the sight of the posters , unrolled and exposed , and the dole cards . |
19 | Sarah : I define myself as a socialist lesbian feminist , but of course that in some sense begs more questions than it answers . |
20 | I lower myself into a contained eddy of water and lean back against a seat of rounded stone . |
21 | I lower myself into a firewood chair , placing the legs carefully on solid planks of floorboard . |
22 | I lower myself into the chair , keeping as far away as possible . |
23 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
24 | Therefore , I commit myself in the negotiations to support the special financial help for farming in the less-favoured areas . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
27 | As in the case of last year 's most successful film , Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , I find myself on the side of the audiences . |
28 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | ‘ You see , I find myself in a similar position . ’ |