Example sentences of "did i [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |
| 2 | Only after leaving did I glimpse myself in the mirror . |
| 3 | So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne … |
| 4 | Did I describe myself as that ? |
| 5 | Did I fling myself into your arms ? |
| 6 | Why did I introduce myself as a sceptic about values but not about facts ? |