Example sentences of "[conj] i give myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 2 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 3 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 4 | If I give myself up , I 'll be charged with murder . ’ |
| 5 | The question slipped out before I gave myself time to consider the wisdom of it . |