Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
| 2 | It was one of the goals I set myself ’ . |
| 3 | I just , I mean , why bother having roundabouts I ask myself |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in asking so very earnestly for your prayers I pledge myself , with the help of God , to serve the diocese of Middlesbrough to the best of my ability . |
| 5 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
| 6 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 7 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 8 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 9 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 10 | For years I convinced myself that I hated eating , and loved the dance lessons . |
| 11 | As I wait at the traffic lights I find myself crying ; I realise it is not for Hilda but for him . |
| 12 | One of the questions I asked myself was what could possibly have gone wrong ? |
| 13 | Yes , I wanted to make a point on the disciplinary side , which is as senior proctor the side of things I find myself thinking most about , and this is going back to the question of policing and whether it 's appropriate to talk in those terms . |
| 14 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 15 | Now it must be confessed that no one in that situation would be likely to justify his choice by saying ‘ In recalling the tastes I found myself spontaneously moved to take the peach ’ . |
| 16 | I 'm having that delivered but the little items I bought myself . |
| 17 | As she hauled me up the stairs I braced myself for ‘ What the blazes , Bina ? |
| 18 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 19 | As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present . |
| 20 | In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel … |
| 21 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 22 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 23 | Said the communique De Benedetti sent out by facsimile about an hour after his meeting with the judges , which the paper said seemed to be written in his own hand : ‘ Several times , I resisted the vexations of the regime , in some occasions I resigned myself to accept them , but only when I found myself faced with the necessity of defending the survival of the company and the thousands of dependents and shareholders toward whom I felt a massive responsibility . |
| 24 | Here in Mr Shah 's hotel or out on the plains I find myself making all sorts of airy leaps and connections effortlessly . |