Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any divorce settlement I know with myself |
| 2 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 3 | When they were lowering my father 's coffin into his grave I thought to myself ‘ It 's all over ! ’ |
| 4 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 5 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 6 | As a result I withdrew into myself , treated overtures of friendship with mistrust , and was easily provoked . |
| 7 | Er without being an actuary I say to myself that 's a pretty magical thing you 've done and then it causes you to start looking at the monetary background of all of that an and again I I 'm , I 'm speaking here largely on what actuarial advice we are beginning to receive . |
| 8 | If the high expectations I have of a partner are based on past experience rather than romantic ideology , so are the expectations I have of myself . |
| 9 | Since talking to Anita , my neighbour , about my weight loss and panic about putting it back on , I 've discovered what a low opinion I have of myself . |
| 10 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 11 | ‘ Believe me , ma'am , the punishment I brought on myself was far more salutary than any thrashing could have been . ’ |
| 12 | Elegance was not a concept I associated with myself , nor with nuns , but as I thought about it I realised that Lili was right . |
| 13 | Well the other day they they were so easy the other day I thought to myself erm who was it , what was it , it oh who , who was the one that sang the green grass of . |
| 14 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 15 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
| 16 | As in Belcourt I think to myself : I am seeing what he saw , the same light , the sky , but it fails to work as it should ; it changes nothing , neither enhances nor diminishes my experience of the place . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've destroyed the belief I had in myself , ’ she sobbed . |
| 18 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 19 | ‘ I prefer this means of transport because I find it consonant with a certain feeling I have about myself — because it expresses a certain style of being that I find congenial — because I find the kinaesthetic sensations it affords , even the physical efforts and nervous tension , somehow involving . ’ |
| 20 | As I got to the bottom of the stairs I said to myself , ‘ Splendid work with Sister Patronise , Miss Marquis . |
| 21 | When I have to leave one in mid-air I fuss to myself for days after . |
| 22 | She was confined to bed and had infrequent visits from a nurse ; since my father was still in the Army I looked after myself and skipped school to visit my mother who , by this time , was in a hospital for the terminally ill . |
| 23 | I 've I , when I heard you saying you recognized his voice I thought to myself well perhaps he 's sort of inviting you to er , whatever ! |
| 24 | Counteracting my cancer cells has been an evolutionary process in which a whole series of different ‘ attacks ’ have been launched depending upon the information I have on myself , how and what I feel . |
| 25 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 26 | In the pause I studied by myself first at home , then at my aunt 's home at Salisbury . |
| 27 | What would my father and mother say , and was n't it time I took upon myself the responsibility of my spiritual life at that time held in proxy by my godparents . |
| 28 | Here is a rather stern injunction I addressed to myself in my notebook on this subject . |
| 29 | It is often the negative power I perceive within myself that is so difficult to account for , or control . |
| 30 | ‘ When I lost that opening game in the fourth set I said to myself ‘ this is your match ’ . |