Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] myself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 32 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
| 33 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 34 | Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands . |
| 35 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 36 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
| 37 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 38 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 39 | The Clwydian Hills , rising to the south and cloaked in cloud , looked wonderfully alluring : so I threw myself into the long climb with far more vigour than I might have done normally . |
| 40 | Indeed , it was at this time that , ironically , I turned myself into a genuine adept of the Magus of the Quotidian . |
| 41 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 42 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 43 | ‘ I paid for the rent for the villa , which I arranged myself with a Belgian count who owned it , and also paid the air fares for all the Mellors , ’ she said . |
| 44 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 45 | Sarah : I define myself as a socialist lesbian feminist , but of course that in some sense begs more questions than it answers . |
| 46 | I lower myself into a contained eddy of water and lean back against a seat of rounded stone . |
| 47 | I find myself on a small brick platform about twenty feet above a man-made , well-bricked channel which follows a straight course through the factories and warehouses . |
| 48 | ‘ You see , I find myself in a similar position . ’ |
| 49 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 50 | I fancied myself as an incipient existentialist . |
| 51 | ‘ I just did a couple of wild things for the videos : I covered myself with a hundred thousand bees for the Flight Of The Bumblebee and I also walked on hot coals ! ’ |
| 52 | Feeling as if I was still asleep and having a very curious dream , I settled myself on the other side of the hearth from the stranger and took a sip of cocoa . |
| 53 | So I settled myself in a small tavern just down the street . |
| 54 | The expression " New Deal " was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination as its presidential candidate in July 1932 , when he said " I pledge you , I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people . " |
| 55 | I accustomed myself to the mephitic stench . |
| 56 | I hurt myself on a big erm . |
| 57 | Later , in my cabin , I treated myself to a long , languorous Omnipure sauna before turning at last to the task of choosing my outfit for the meeting with the Emissary . |
| 58 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 59 | After a quick wash and shave , dressed in a freshly pressed kilt and battledress blouse , polished boots and all , I presented myself with the other Commandos at the orderly room to get my hands on that very important rail pass . |
| 60 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |