Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am currently in therapy to enable myself to hear the song Schiehallion , Schiehallion without the scent of tomato soup filling my nostrils and the overwhelming urge to murder . |
| 2 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 3 | With all the hauteur of a Southern lady , the phrasing of her refusal was admirable : ‘ To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is , to me , inhuman , indecent and dishonourable . |
| 4 | Well , I am here , Lizzie , in order to prepare myself for a long day tomorrow , which I think is a wise decision , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | Maybe the question , ‘ What is it that I have to undo in order to help myself ? ’ is more appropriate when it comes to the Alexander Technique . |
| 6 | In order to make myself comprehensible to them , I have taken particular pains with the style and clarity of the exposition … " |
| 7 | So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be . |