Example sentences of "[pers pn] find myself [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 2 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 3 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 4 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 5 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 6 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 7 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 8 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 9 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |
| 10 | When the path narrowed , we had to proceed in single file , and I found myself leading the way , with my aunt following closely behind and my father behind her . |
| 11 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 12 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 13 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 14 | To my amused horror , I find myself urging the women to try baking buns ( more sugar , more profit ! ) and working out the amounts for a trial run . |
| 15 | Right now I find myself regretting the fact that we have done very little to replace them . |
| 16 | Exactly 11 years later , I find myself doing the same job , this time in the Kremlin . |