Example sentences of "[to-vb] myself [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 2 | I can not say how strange it was , how peculiarly dead I felt , when I awoke to find myself at a distance from my father . |
| 3 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 4 | To find myself in the company of so many eminent , discerning and open-minded independent shopkeepers , affords me pleasure beyond expression . |
| 5 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 6 | I will learn to know myself with the help of my inner teacher . |
| 7 | To establish myself as a Test player and not only a one-day player . |
| 8 | Recognizing all this , and being shown too where the power lies in this social order , the politics of inversion become persuasive , perhaps irresistible ; this is Moll , about to thrash the predatory Laxton : ‘ I scorn to prostitute myself to a man , /that can prostitute a man to me ’ ( iii . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Within Royal Ordnance which I have resumed the responsibility for I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I convened a meeting of the convenors to introduce myself and to familiarize myself with the movement and the industry only for the company to announce thirteen hundred redundancies , as we were meeting . |
| 11 | My aim would be to fit myself into the game unobtrusively … |
| 12 | But it was too late , or perhaps I forced the confession out of myself , determined once and for all to rid myself of the burden of this secret . |
| 13 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure how long it 'll take me before I can bear to look myself in the mirror again ! ’ |
| 15 | I gathered my courage , and turned , prepared to look myself in the face . |
| 16 | Not all found this easy ; in my own case , I was asked to imagine myself in a cave and paint what I saw ! |
| 17 | I prefer to arrive in New York at night , to lower myself into the city gradually , like getting into a bathful of very hot water . |
| 18 | And it 's too wide to loop the line around ; I wo n't have enough slack left to lower myself to the hole . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 20 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 21 | yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it . |
| 22 | I 've done nothing to put myself in a position where I have … hit men coming after me ! ’ |
| 23 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |
| 24 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 25 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it . |
| 27 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 28 | I was absolutely determined not to expose myself to the sort of pain that love can bring . ’ |
| 29 | I begged a tankard of ale from a surly cook and went to warm myself before the hall fire until my master roused me . |
| 30 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |