Example sentences of "i would [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I thought I 'd absorb myself in all these things .
2 Sometimes at night I 'd find myself beyond the souks in narrow lanes between windowless houses .
3 In embarking on this journey , I 'd put myself into store again and set off ; like the other women I needed safety , I needed to be taken care of , to take care of myself and now to take care of this journey .
4 I was beginning to think I 'd put myself in kind of a spot with all this .
5 If I simply concentrated on reducing the network , I would involve myself in a long and profitless public , political and industrial row .
6 ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’
7 Anytime after nine o'clock on the Friday evening I would lock myself into the office with typewriter , plenty of paper and a full bottle of Teacher 's Highland Cream .
8 I would prepare myself for flight later , for I was determined not to be caught again ; meanwhile , I needed warmth and food .
9 I would devote myself in future to my family .
10 On several occasions I would find myself at 1,000 ft or above , and the undercarriage was still down : the flaps , if we had put any out , were still down : the engines were belting away in line pitch ; and the mixture control remained where it was — in rich .
11 If I had what they have , I would consider myself in heaven . ’
12 I would describe myself as a Communist but other Socialist traditions are also important . ’
13 If asked , I would describe myself as average height , with dyed black hair .
14 Amitha : I suppose , if asked , I would describe myself as a Black Gujarati lesbian .
15 ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes . ’
16 ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes ’ Cregagh Bonsai owner Stephen Whiteside surrounds himself with the love of his life .
17 When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . "
18 As I cycled faster and faster each morning as my legs grew stronger , I would imagine myself to be beating a world record for the number of times anyone could ride round our yard in one morning .
19 But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer .
20 I would see myself as a feminist and a socialist and I think socialism is the only form of just government a just way of running any sort of society , that can give people any sort of dignity .
21 I would declare myself in the waiting-room of a railway station if it were necessary ) , he said that I was humiliating him .
22 I would begin myself from Saint-Jean-de-Luz , from where there are at least three pleasant roads going south into the heart of Labourd .
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