Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 2 | I 'd have been taken to a guardroom and asked to explain myself . " |
| 3 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 4 | I felt uneasy and depressed and tried to cheer myself up shopping , but there was nothing I wanted and I caught any early train home . |
| 5 | I put both palms flat on the decaying undergrowth and tried to heave myself up on to my knees . |
| 6 | I sat down behind my desk and tried to pull myself together ; I was trembling suddenly , and I felt the hollowness inside me growing into a pain . |
| 7 | I just wanted to leave the tent , but as this was not possible due to the weather outside , I snuggled down in my sleeping bag and tried to make myself comfortable on the hard , stony ground . |
| 8 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 9 | Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror , unaccountable yet unendurable , I threw on my clothes with haste ( for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night ) , and endeavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen , by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment . |
| 10 | I 'm perfectly happy to plead a two-year-old 's birthday and then wiggle , flatter and schmooze to get myself off the hook . |
| 11 | Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way . |
| 12 | When the day came I got up very early and managed to get myself into what was almost the front row of the crowd , immediately underneath the platform in Piazza Unità where he was to appear . |
| 13 | I was carrying a good supply of handkerchiefs and managed to keep myself clean , but it was ten past eight before I had recovered sufficiently to move , with attendance at the concert now out of the question . |
| 14 | I take a deep breath and try to calm myself , to still the noisy , rusty jagged parts . |
| 15 | I begged a tankard of ale from a surly cook and went to warm myself before the hall fire until my master roused me . |
| 16 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 17 | I started to put together a little library and had to teach myself a lot more before I could teach anyone else . |
| 18 | When nylon underwear first became popular I produced similar fireworks and had to earth myself to radiators when nobody was looking . |
| 19 | I grow bored with the sheer size of the glass and have to force myself to continue , he wrote . |
| 20 | ‘ I know that does n't and ca n't excuse the way I came here and attempted to pass myself off as Cara , but I 've otherwise tried to keep to the truth , as far as possible . ’ |
| 21 | I am so pleased with the Elna ; I began making my bedroom curtains some time ago , but had to steel myself and put them away , as the ‘ British Biographies ’ book was exerting great pressure to keep to its schedule and I had to work on it in much of my spare time . |
| 22 | While trying to convince myself how ridiculous this thought was , the turret lit up like a flash-bulb and exploded , or seemed to . |