Example sentences of "i [verb] myself [art] " in BNC.

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1 Could I make myself a sandwich , do you think ? ’
2 But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer .
3 I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray .
4 Then I forge myself a letter .
5 I made myself a cape from an old camel hair coat , I could not wear that of Queen Alexandra 's Service .
6 I made myself a pot of mint tea and sat silently at the living-room table .
7 I made myself a coffee and went to bed , pausing to look in and say goodnight to Nigel on the way , which at the time , and since , did n't seem at all an unusual thing to do .
8 A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island .
9 Before getting into my sleeping-bag I made myself a cup of cocoa , without milk , which I do n't much like , and with a generous lacing of whisky , which I do .
10 ‘ When you did not come to see him I made myself a vow that you would face reality and not some story that has been hammered into you since childhood .
11 I made myself a nice profit out of it .
12 I made myself the timetable you know .
13 No I did n't even get up for that , I come downstairs , I made myself an orange juice he Vicked me back and me front again I tried to get back to sleep .
14 Just wait a moment , while I make myself a little more Presentable , then I will come with you . ’
15 I make myself a cup of milkless tea , vintage 1974 , and take a cautious sip .
16 So , impressed by him , I got myself a bass guitar .
17 I went to the flat and I got myself a job working in Woolworth 's in Reading .
18 I got myself a few commissions — did I tell you I was thinking of going freelance ? ’
19 I got myself a larger size and even they seemed to be pretty neat .
20 I got myself a couple of sausages on sticks , a hunk of crusty bread , and another Scotch , and I took over a pint of bitter for Seddon .
21 I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine we thought was being financed from Moscow .
22 I got myself a pair of white jogging trousers , ooh they 're large !
23 I got myself a pressie actually and I ai n't bloody ate it yet .
24 Eventually I got myself an editor who explained to me how to write a book , more or less , and what purple prose was , and all of that .
25 I shift myself a stair higher , so that I can reach up and stroke my son 's head .
26 I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin .
27 And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force .
28 I found myself the only ‘ other ’ .
29 His first publication , a humorous but unsophisticated story entitled ‘ How I built myself a house ’ , published in Chambers 's Journal in March 1865 , was originally written for the amusement of colleagues during afternoons which appear to have been all too idle .
30 When I was still very young I built myself a raft from old planks and oil-drums .
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