Example sentences of "myself up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not setting myself up as a model for anyone . |
| 2 | It appears to me that I have collected his and everyone else 's quota of the annoying little bastards , so I return to my trench , wrap myself up , and sleep fitfully until I am awakened to take my turn on guard . |
| 3 | I walk pretty quick to warm myself up . |
| 4 | With the light , it feels colder and I run down the road a bit to warm myself up . |
| 5 | I stop outside this laundrette and warm myself up . |
| 6 | I open my eyes and push myself up . |
| 7 | I 'd like to stay here on the floor but there 's cars beeping at me and I think I 'm lying in the road , so I push myself up and sort of crawl to the pavement . |
| 8 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 9 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 10 | ( I would even catch myself , sometimes , drawing myself up and standing extra straight and tall for his benefit . ) |
| 11 | There was an embarrassed silence when I went back into the kitchen to tidy myself up . |
| 12 | I do not see why I should so deliver myself up to those who are so assiduously conducting the campaign of abuse and denigration directed at me . |
| 13 | Early this year I secluded myself up here for a life of quiet , concentrated study and meditation , rediscovering myself in the vastness and solitude of the mountains . |
| 14 | I put both palms flat on the decaying undergrowth and tried to heave myself up on to my knees . |
| 15 | ‘ If I can pull myself up by my own bootstraps , ’ he declared , ‘ then so can the human race . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I completely messed myself up going to altitude . |
| 17 | You may wonder : Who am I to set myself up ? |
| 18 | It contradicts all the assumptions of secular culture — that I can gain self-knowledge and pull myself up by my own shoestrings . |
| 19 | And I kidded myself up you had n't seen me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 21 | I was propping myself up , still in my sleeping bag with only my head outside . |
| 22 | Before dawn , I was in the sleeping-bag , propping myself up on an elbow , Bible in one hand , torch in the other , flicking the beam periodically to the right of my legs , where the small aluminium pan and stove were struggling to boil water for tea . |
| 23 | I hauled myself up , shouting abuse at my stupidity . |
| 24 | The wheelbarrow was on its side , half the contents spilled out , and I was picking myself up . |
| 25 | ‘ … My whole being was , with eyes closed to every object of present sense , to crumple myself up in a sunny corner , and read , read , read . ’ |
| 26 | I took myself up to Highbury to hear about all this . |
| 27 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 28 | He said that I was killing myself , getting injured and mashing myself up for nothing . |
| 29 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |