Example sentences of "i [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In waking life it was too strong to allow me to indulge myself in secret feasts , and I no longer felt any desire for them . |
| 2 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 3 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 4 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 5 | As I do not , as a rule , take alcohol , the one glass of sherry I had with lunch enabled me to enjoy myself with the other guests . |
| 6 | How do you expect me to conceive myself as no longer existent ? ’ |
| 7 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 8 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 9 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 10 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 11 | As I flung myself at it , pounding footsteps were behind me . |
| 12 | I despise you , and I despise myself for needing you , but I do need . ’ |
| 13 | Pinning the laminate onto my dress , I launch myself into the throng . |
| 14 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 15 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 16 | I mean myself as a councillor I think i if you 're a councillor you should be involved in the strike in one way or another you know . |
| 17 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
| 18 | The sole remaining question was could I adapt myself to my environment ? |
| 19 | Can I restrict myself to low stocking levels — resisting temptation ? |
| 20 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 21 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 22 | True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God . |
| 23 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 24 | I reproach myself at the same time . |
| 25 | I got myself into trouble … |
| 26 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 27 | A couple of days later I was that fed up I got myself in trouble . |
| 28 | And then I got myself in a knot cos there was a car coming up the road |
| 29 | John is the only person I talk to about how ugly and disgusting I feel , how fat I think I am , how much I hate myself for being out of control . |
| 30 | I hate myself for being weak , and wish I were younger and stronger , but I 'm 68 years old and no match for them . |