Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb mod] [vb infin] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility that I might starve myself to death was never raised : instead I was scolded for looking like a scarecrow , and my mother told me that she was ashamed to be seen with me . |
| 2 | It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions . |
| 3 | She was the first athlete that I could identify myself with ; she was always in the news . |
| 4 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 5 | ‘ If you just ring them up you can not understand the problems they face so I thought this would be a good way that I could use myself as a focus on their work . ’ |
| 6 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 7 | Belle and I floored another hen betwixt the pair of us , and I shall be no sooner done with the present writing racket than I shall put myself outside a pint of Guinness . |
| 8 | The examples are too numerous to quote , so I shall confine myself to two . |
| 9 | I confess to not being in a position to bring his painstaking research into question so I shall confine myself to what is set before me . |
| 10 | Oh to get away so I could exhaust myself with intense experiences , where everyone spoke of intense subjects and never said " pass the bread and butter . " |
| 11 | To attempt to summarise the cookery of the Far East in two or three paragraphs would be impossible , so I will limit myself to a brief description of some of the more readily available Oriental foods , and an Eastern style recipe for the buffet table which is always very popular in my catering business . |
| 12 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 13 | On page 48 , Jim Levi profiles the man who will occupy one of the hottest seats in British banking , so I will confine myself to a few points . |
| 14 | This task , in any comprehensive sense , is beyond the scope of the present book , and I shall confine myself to a very schematic presentation of a few salient issues . |
| 15 | My discussion has already set the parameter by the title above and I shall confine myself to these social issues of culture and education . |
| 16 | When I was with him I was in a more or less permanent state of sexual excitement , and I could bring myself to orgasm just by looking at him , without the aid of hands . |
| 17 | Sometimes I think I 'm invisible and I can pour myself into places like I 'm made of water . |
| 18 | In midweek , however , the stretch is reasonably quiet and I can conceal myself behind a clump of rushes and cast a big piece of luncheon meat on a link-leger rig right in the deep hole and let the current roll it under the roof . |
| 19 | If I can lever myself by hanging on to this … . |
| 20 | If I can prove myself to them then things could progress from that . |
| 21 | I 'd be a lot happier if I could disentangle myself from What I 've already done and create songs from a completely fresh perspective . ’ |
| 22 | But I 'll insure myself for my dad 's car , hundred and sixty eight pound . |
| 23 | I shall not have to concern myself with the interview of [ W ] but I shall concern myself with the interviews of [ the co-accused ] . ’ |
| 24 | Almost every line of this surprisingly underrated poem is relevant to the subject in hand , but I will limit myself to the following short extract : |