Example sentences of "[verb] myself to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
| 2 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 3 | Nor would it have been true , for I greatly feared death , suspecting myself to be damned . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 6 | I was n't completely heart-free during those years ; sometimes I allowed myself to be fooled that I loved someone , but when it came to the point of saying " yes " to anything final there was always the small honest inner voice which jeered " For life ? |
| 7 | ‘ I allowed myself to be talked into riding a horse by a stuntman , ’ she says . |
| 8 | I knew that the Cross would drag me to Cambridge if I allowed myself to be dragged , but I refused . |
| 9 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
| 10 | Ann de Stratford ( Mrs Seed ) echoes this sentiment : ‘ I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have a very happy marriage to someone who has never considered me as anything but an equal . |
| 11 | I 'd live off my wits even though I 've geared myself to be a footballer . |
| 12 | ‘ As I know myself to be entirely English … ’ she told Parliament in March 1702 , three days after her accession , ‘ there is not one thing you can expect or desire of me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness or prosperity of England . ’ |
| 13 | Now I have my lovely mate , I have schooled myself to be neither malicious nor miserable , and not to hate People . |
| 14 | If you behave like this , you will understand that I can not permit myself to be alone with you . ’ |
| 15 | To begin with I thought I must force myself to be matter-of-fact , not let his abnormality take control of the situation . |
| 16 | It heals us of depression and sadness , as if they were intrinsic to the kind of person I believe myself to be . |
| 17 | And for a person in a somewhat delicate emotional condition , as I believe myself to be , this is hard to contemplate . |
| 18 | Allow myself to be spirited off to Germany where I assassinate Hitler at the first opportunity ? ’ |
| 19 | It 's it 's just the strains that I 've had to go through , raising her up , and the time and the energy and just having myself to be sane , you know and and well ! |
| 20 | And when I 'm with the other I just feel myself to be a better person . |
| 21 | I took off the yellow waistcoat with its white lining and hung it on a hanger , and I took off my shoes , but rather like George I still felt myself to be on duty , so I switched off the light and lay on top of the bedclothes watching the black Canadian land slide by , while the free northern show went on above for hours in the sky . |
| 22 | I felt myself to be a source of pollution , and grew to dread my period , especially as I never knew exactly when it was going to come . |
| 23 | Both physically and emotionally I felt myself to be younger than ( inferior to ) my two younger sisters . |
| 24 | My diary , in my pre-anorexic days , often refers to a ‘ weight of depression ’ which I felt myself to be carrying around . |
| 25 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
| 26 | The first cone was melted to a puddle , the second was bending in obeisance to the blaze — as I felt myself to be , stooped there before the kiln , wanting to gaze and gaze , but the vision was barely supportable . |
| 27 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |
| 28 | I have exerted myself to be as charming as I can be perhaps you will reassure me , Therese , that I can still be charming when I try ? ’ |
| 29 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 30 | ‘ But it 's not in my nature to allow myself to be altered by another . |