Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] myself [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 2 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 3 | But it was when I came to ask myself the reason for such a wild suggestion that I received a greater shock . |
| 4 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 5 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
| 6 | So I decided to make myself a boat . |
| 7 | I have always done my own dressmaking and last year , with a growing interest in knitting , I decided to buy myself a machine . |
| 8 | I did allow myself a Metastim tablet from my belt pouch , but even its effect was minimal , and temporary . |
| 9 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 10 | I had fancied myself a connoisseur of contrast , a gourmet savouring the sweet-and-sour clash between my present lifestyle and the one I had left behind me in East Oxford . |
| 11 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 12 | I had found myself a champion ! |
| 13 | The trouble was I chose the wrong product if I hoped to make myself a fortune . |