Example sentences of "[verb] myself at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 3 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 4 | I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it . |
| 5 | Before I had really recovered , I found myself at the railway station , where I said goodbye to Dulcie and we went our separate ways , promising to keep in touch , as one does . |
| 6 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 7 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 10 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 11 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I replied , launching myself at the Moroccan fabric , ‘ he has n't blown the gaff on my war wound , has he ? |
| 13 | I knew I would eat too much and mentally planned to restrict myself at lunch , which would be equally difficult . |
| 14 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 15 | Acting on a hunch , I stationed myself at 5.59 p.m. the following Monday , and sure enough I was nearly killed by middle managers trying to get out of the office before the 6 p.m. deadline . |
| 16 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 17 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 18 | I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it . |
| 19 | I knacker myself at my job to keep her nice and warm in my HOUSE , WITH MY KIDS AND MY DOG AND MY HI-FI AND MY CAR AND MY DAVID HOCKNEY PRINT … |
| 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 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 22 | Fling myself at her black-stockinged feet while the Ally Pally sparrows sang a serenade . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose it 's true that I have n't really proved myself at Sunderland . |
| 24 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 25 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
| 26 | ‘ What more can I say , ’ he added , ‘ except — it sounds fine — perhaps , although I would never commit myself at such an early stage , even perfect . ’ |
| 27 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
| 28 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 29 | For a dizzy moment , I pictured myself at home in London surrounded by an entire harem of these dark-eyed beauties . |
| 30 | Finding myself at wit 's end of an era Bad Housekeeping . |