Example sentences of "i [vb past] myself up " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I went to meet her without my make-up on and demonstrated how I made myself up . |
| 2 | I drew myself up looking offended . |
| 3 | I drew myself up . |
| 4 | I drew myself up to my full 4 feet 8 inches , flared my pupils at the teacher , picked up my scarlet skirt , Vivien Leigh-style , and , with a thud , parquet met felt and felt met parquet . |
| 5 | Well I woke myself up snoring last night . |
| 6 | I hauled myself up , shouting abuse at my stupidity . |
| 7 | I hauled myself up and peered out of the bars . |
| 8 | I hauled myself up from whatever I was lying on . |
| 9 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 10 | The pain faded , and I pulled myself up immediately with the help of the banisters and gained the second floor in the lull . |
| 11 | I dolled myself up after the bath . |
| 12 | I cleaned myself up and checked out my patch , hoping I 'd find that tabby trespassing . |
| 13 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 14 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 15 | And I kidded myself up you had n't seen me . ’ |
| 16 | I took myself up to Highbury to hear about all this . |
| 17 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 18 | I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha . |
| 19 | I propped myself up on my elbow and looked at him . |
| 20 | Quickly , I picked myself up and ran for my life through the trees . |
| 21 | A cow once kicked me nearly to the other end of the byre and as I picked myself up the farmer said unemotionally , " Aye , she 's allus had a habit o' that . " |
| 22 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 23 | I thought if I wrapped myself up in chickenwire and cut myself out again I would be left with a realistic shape . |