Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] myself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |
| 2 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 3 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 4 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 5 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 6 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 7 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 8 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |
| 9 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 10 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 11 | The Mexican atmosphere was contagious and I soon found myself on a crowded coach bound for Mexico . |
| 12 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 13 | I had somehow landed myself in the centre of an extraordinary old man 's fantasies . |
| 14 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 15 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 16 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 17 | In the end I pretended to be worried that I had left my bicycle lamp on and dashed outside to relieve myself in a flower-bed . |
| 18 | When I get on that plane , I 'll just sit myself in a corner and concentrate on what I have to do . |
| 19 | I would still chain myself to a disused railway line in Bacup for him , but the lad can do better . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have always seen myself as a younger version of Joan Collins . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose I have always seen myself as a younger version of Joan Collins , ’ she confided . |
| 22 | Well I 'm still getting myself in a tangle , like I was when I came . |
| 23 | I totally lost myself in the remoteness . |
| 24 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 25 | The cement floor was cold underfoot and the water colder , so I washed quickly and jumped out on to the carpet , gratefully rubbing myself with a towel which the Sheikha had given me . |
| 26 | ‘ I always take myself as a starting point when it comes to songs , going on to explore situations in a manner that is very sound-oriented , ’ she says , rather vaguely . |
| 27 | I always position myself on the side in which the rabbits hit the net . |
| 28 | Apart from helping her , I have also helped myself with a domestic who is more efficient and devoted because her mind is free of family problems ’ . |
| 29 | Your intervention clearly implicates myself in the charge you make of ‘ defeatist talk ’ about the scientific connection between material deprivation and premature death . |
| 30 | I also remind myself of the effect upon the plaintiff 's fathers career , of his decision to give up work in order to attend the plaintiff . |