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 . ’
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