Example sentences of "i [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could I make myself a sandwich , do you think ? ’ |
| 2 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 3 | Then I forge myself a letter . |
| 4 | I made myself a pot of mint tea and sat silently at the living-room table . |
| 5 | I made myself a cape from an old camel hair coat , I could not wear that of Queen Alexandra 's Service . |
| 6 | Before getting into my sleeping-bag I made myself a cup of cocoa , without milk , which I do n't much like , and with a generous lacing of whisky , which I do . |
| 7 | I made myself a coffee and went to bed , pausing to look in and say goodnight to Nigel on the way , which at the time , and since , did n't seem at all an unusual thing to do . |
| 8 | ‘ When you did not come to see him I made myself a vow that you would face reality and not some story that has been hammered into you since childhood . |
| 9 | I made myself the timetable you know . |
| 10 | No I did n't even get up for that , I come downstairs , I made myself an orange juice he Vicked me back and me front again I tried to get back to sleep . |
| 11 | I make myself a cup of milkless tea , vintage 1974 , and take a cautious sip . |
| 12 | I got myself a couple of sausages on sticks , a hunk of crusty bread , and another Scotch , and I took over a pint of bitter for Seddon . |
| 13 | I went to the flat and I got myself a job working in Woolworth 's in Reading . |
| 14 | I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine we thought was being financed from Moscow . |
| 15 | I got myself a pressie actually and I ai n't bloody ate it yet . |
| 16 | Eventually I got myself an editor who explained to me how to write a book , more or less , and what purple prose was , and all of that . |
| 17 | I shift myself a stair higher , so that I can reach up and stroke my son 's head . |
| 18 | When I was still very young I built myself a raft from old planks and oil-drums . |
| 19 | His first publication , a humorous but unsophisticated story entitled ‘ How I built myself a house ’ , published in Chambers 's Journal in March 1865 , was originally written for the amusement of colleagues during afternoons which appear to have been all too idle . |
| 20 | I promised myself a break with the crossword when I had written three pages . |
| 21 | I give myself a pat on the back for every question which I answered in a way which led the pupils deeper into the problem . |
| 22 | ‘ I consider myself a feminist . |
| 23 | Lewis says his love for his mother Vi will keep him out of trouble , declaring : ‘ She brought me into this world and I consider myself a mother 's boy — I owe it all to her . |
| 24 | However , I consider myself an expert in the art of assassination and murder and , I tell you this , violent death always comes quietly . |
| 25 | I poured myself a drink . |
| 26 | I poured myself a drink and sipped it . |
| 27 | I poured myself a drink . |
| 28 | Then I allowed myself the luxury to think ‘ Hey , yeah , at 30 you 're not such a failure after all . ’ |
| 29 | When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I only want to sell me flowers wherever I find meself a customer . ’ |