Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’ |
| 2 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 3 | There has always been a vigorous tradition of English studies in adult education , and indeed it was through such classes that I was myself able to become a mature student in the early 1950s . |
| 4 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 5 | Then my ugly face and shabby coat harmonise perfectly with the surroundings and I am myself . ’ |
| 6 | But I am myself an agent ; there remains the question of how I make my own decisions . |
| 7 | An unusual example of this occurred when I was myself collecting historical data about a small town during the course of a local social survey . |
| 8 | When I was myself again , Silver was standing with his crutch under his arm , cleaning the blood from his knife with some grass . |
| 9 | When I was myself again , I locked the door that led from the street to my laboratory . |
| 10 | The writing over the next few months of very many letters to these poor people who were as anguished as I was myself , afforded some distraction and mitigated my feelings of isolation . |
| 11 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |
| 12 | She had been as insignificant in appearance as all the other girls I had seen him with : as insignificant as I was myself . |
| 13 | My mother was , I think , almost as ignorant on the subject as I was myself , having lived only in the nutshell of the English enclave , and she was silent . |
| 14 | We need a man , a strong man , now ; for I am myself old and must soon die . ’ |