Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God . |
| 2 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 3 | Certainly I can not deduce which goals to pursue from the facts to be faced ; but will it not be a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face facts ’ that I let myself be moved , at least incipiently , in the direction in which the facing of the facts would cause me to move ? |
| 4 | To the extent that I let myself be moved spontaneously in and out of perceptual and emotional awareness , it is likely to be my own ends , and those of persons whom I love or hate , which determine most of my choices of ends . |
| 5 | I ca n't believe that I was really that desperate , that I let myself go that completely . |
| 6 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 7 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 8 | Actually , I have begun to think that I do belong to a time , but it is separated by so many decades from theirs that I reproach myself . |
| 9 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 10 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 11 | I am entering my true life , the life I was prevented from leading — well , that I prevented myself from leading by my stupidity , my incredible folly . |
| 12 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 13 | ‘ There are times , ’ he said in the first letter , ‘ that I wish myself not a prince , but a simple fellow . |
| 14 | Now that I seek myself in a serpent |
| 15 | Mind you I was glad cos I got hell of a temper that I kept myself alright cos I was gon na swing for her like . |
| 16 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 17 | Mostly I 'm sorry that I hurt myself . |
| 18 | I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’ |
| 19 | But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also . |
| 20 | It does n't matter that I disappointed myself . |
| 21 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 22 | He wants me to hate myself so much that I destroy myself . |
| 23 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 24 | My girlfriend , after my eleven-month absence , had understandably left me , and it was in the company of my two still-faithful black cats that I threw myself into writing . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I 'm glad that I behaved myself , then , ’ he said , his face clearing suddenly . |
| 26 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , it 's not that I think myself better , not a bit . |
| 28 | I was such a weary girl that I bored myself . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 30 | Is it to be wondered at that I demean myself thus to take notice of her ? |