Example sentences of "and [verb] myself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 2 | I was spitting with fear and frustration as I yanked on some clothes and flung myself into the control area . |
| 3 | Finally I decided to decline politely and throw myself on the mercy of an acquaintance instead . ’ |
| 4 | I did a neat somersault and found myself on the bottom of the river , drowning ; fishing jacket , waders and fishing bag weighed me down . |
| 5 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 6 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 7 | Once I forgot to take a flashlight with me when visiting a friend , and found myself outside the house in pitch blackness , unable even to find the edge of the pavement or the garden hedge . |
| 8 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 9 | I went on , confident of my compass , but becoming less so , and found myself in the middle of a disused airfield , among landing markers , gutted buildings and a wrecked radar scanner . |
| 10 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 11 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 12 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 13 | I stripped off , laid my clothes out to dry in the sun , and cooled myself in the loch ; then , standing on a rock , I surveyed the magnificent view , sure that the effort involved in reaching the loch had been more than repaid by its utter peace and serenity . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like to spend one year here , continue my studies and test myself against the best British players . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Trapped in a nightmare of indecision , I reluctantly agreed and prepared myself for the worst . |
| 17 | I left him , sunk in bliss , and busied myself in the kitchen . |
| 18 | Let me be able to wash and dress myself to the last . |
| 19 | No , oh yes , nick all the cards and played myself on the tune |
| 20 | I went up the stone steps into the street , and let myself into the house . |
| 21 | Aware that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had a massive audience , ranging from children to grandparents , Crawford said , ‘ I then go and put myself before the public ’ as Billy Liar , whose first words as he comes on stage are along the lines of ‘ Christ Almighty , bloody , blimey ! ’ in a song . |
| 22 | I crept along the riverside until I reached the culvert and hid myself among the banks of sweet cicely to read my book . |
| 23 | I stopped going to parties , stopped drinking and threw myself into the regime of Ron 's hard training schedules . |
| 24 | Callowly , I was disgusted by all this ; I avoided my mother and threw myself into the job of telling lies for La Clava . |
| 25 | I drop my bag inside the window and hoist myself over the sill to follow it . |
| 26 | I ran forward and dashed myself into the water with a skimming dive . |
| 27 | I looked up at his face and braced myself for the inevitable blast . |
| 28 | And braced myself for the deluge of his anger . |
| 29 | I turned off the road when I drew level with the Brigadier and his Officers , and placed myself on the right of Mills Roberts as the Brigade swept past to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 30 | and pulled myself over the gutter , it were alright getting up , it were getting back in |