Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I have an idea that this would be good to use as a weaving yarn , but I restrained myself from buying any — I have enough cones in the cupboard , thank you very much . |
| 2 | " The hurt was beginning from when he had stood unmoving when I put my arms round him , but I drove myself through it . |
| 3 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 4 | I 'll admit from the start that my own attempt to arpeggiate the Gambale way sounds more like Sooty than Sweep picking , but I console myself by thinking that I should n't let a signature model impose another player 's personality on my own style ! |
| 5 | My superior self had taken over-call it the result of time-shock , if you will , but I felt myself in the presence of myth and , by association , accepted myself as mythical ! |
| 6 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 7 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 8 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 9 | In the darkness he said : ‘ I know nothing more than I have told you , but I blame myself for what happened . |
| 10 | But I think I 'll stay here but I see myself as a internationalist as well . |
| 11 | But I see myself in a different life |
| 12 | I was excited at the thought of finding fossils eight hundred miles from the sea , but I chastised myself for being so stupid . |
| 13 | But I twist myself above him on the ground . |
| 14 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 15 | SUPERNOVAE Starfield Guitars I did n't know exactly what to expect upon opening these guitar cases , but I found myself in danger of becoming seriously enthusiastic about the contents … |
| 16 | Once you had served a few years , you might come to detest the job , but you committed yourself to the future . |
| 17 | It would be possible , temporarily , to laugh at the wife being landed in trouble by the monk after her meretricious bargain with him , but she extricates herself from this problem in true fabliau manner . |
| 18 | Lady Pomfret had been an excellent wife and mother and an efficient Lady of the Bedchamber , but she exposed herself to constant ridicule in society because she was so desperate to be thought of as a learned woman . |
| 19 | ‘ I tried to reason with her after , but she locked herself in the bathroom , crying . |
| 20 | Her feet kept on blundering along through the darkness and a stitch stabbed at her side but she blinded herself to exhaustion and ran . |
| 21 | It was an ordeal for Beth to be used for this night after night , but she comforted herself with the knowledge that he truly loved her and was always both gentle and considerate . |
| 22 | But she bore herself like a queen as she slowly descended the stairs , and knew that Araminta , staring up from below , was disconcerted by the picture she made . |
| 23 | Sabine suspected that the Baronne was already sufficiently indulged , but she allowed herself to be escorted to the grand chamber . |
| 24 | She did n't know how it happened , but she found herself in Mrs Lennox 's arms , who comforted her as though she were a child . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ said my mother , extremely dubiously , but she permitted herself to be led to a table and sat down . |
| 26 | ‘ At first , we thought it would be too beautiful to use , ’ admitted Peter , ‘ but we accustomed ourselves to its ways . ’ |
| 27 | But we see ourselves as a sound system , and in a way everybody is a part of Motion Incorporated . |
| 28 | Immediately we could sense a rough and rather unpleasant atmosphere , but we allowed ourselves to be swept up the steps of the first house into a howling throng of excitable spectators . |
| 29 | I do shut them up at night because of the stoats and the foxes , but they put themselves to bed , I only have to shut the door . |
| 30 | Those of the cast who remembered the euphoria of Taunton were disappointed , but they comforted themselves with the fact that they were at least on , something which three days previously had looked most unlikely . |