Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 2 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 3 | A feeling of terror mounted in me , and I dragged myself to the telephone and rang Émile . |
| 4 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
| 5 | But the PE teacher was strong-willed and I associated myself with him more than anybody else . |
| 6 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 7 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 8 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 9 | I played a real opera singer from the nineteenth century , Nadena Burokhof and I based myself on her . |
| 10 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 11 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 12 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 13 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 14 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 16 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 17 | I had to get my passport done , my parents ' written permission because I was only seventeen and I found myself in Paris two days later . |
| 18 | She barked back , the door slid open wide enough for me to enter and I found myself in a roomful of dames all with rigor mortis of the third-finger-of-the-left-hand . |
| 19 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 20 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 21 | and I found myself in a bare street . |