Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 2 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 3 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 5 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 6 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 7 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 8 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |
| 9 | ‘ There was no reason to tell you of my proposal until I 'd assured myself of his agreement to it . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 11 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 12 | I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with . |
| 13 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 14 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd told myself for weeks that our wedding night would be such a moving experience for both of us that you 'd suddenly realise you were in love with me , and tell me , and everything would end happily ever after . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 17 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 18 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 20 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 21 | I hated seeing myself at first — we all did . |
| 22 | I decided to throw myself into buying a flat , and avoid thinking about Lebanon as much as I could . |
| 23 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
| 24 | I probably did n't help my cause by being so self-conscious about the whole exercise that I decided to station myself behind a bush . |
| 25 | I then could nt bear to listen to the radio for the rest of the half , so I decided to occupy myself for 40 mins . |
| 26 | But erm , there are one or two interesting exceptions to this , and one exception is myself , because er , I started analyzing myself through maybe to nineteen sixty nine , and with one or two small exceptions , like when I was being analyzed by and I did n't like it , with any doubt , my entire analysis was being written down . |
| 27 | I chose to involve myself in matters best left alone . |
| 28 | I managed to stop myself from repeating that , too . |
| 29 | Alas , all good things come to an end and with a mixture of breast stroke and doggy paddle I managed to beach myself onto the belay . |
| 30 | At the time I was living in a bedsit in Chelsea and was unemployed ; through a mixture of odd jobs and the DHSS I managed to keep myself in beer and cigarettes . |