Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God . |
| 2 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 3 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 4 | I am entering my true life , the life I was prevented from leading — well , that I prevented myself from leading by my stupidity , my incredible folly . |
| 5 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 6 | Now that I seek myself in a serpent |
| 7 | I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’ |
| 8 | But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also . |
| 9 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 10 | My girlfriend , after my eleven-month absence , had understandably left me , and it was in the company of my two still-faithful black cats that I threw myself into writing . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 12 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 13 | It is because I feel that the impulse that is behind the work of the Labour Party is mainly the same longing for the time when man [ sic ] will be able to live in free and equal comradeship that I find myself in line with that party . |
| 14 | The reader may have gathered by now that I place myself amongst this group . |
| 15 | I could n't stand any more , so I locked myself in my bedroom and in the morning I went to Newhaven and got on the boat . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
| 17 | After that , I realised I 'd get nowhere thinking about you , ’ he continued , ‘ so I immersed myself in my construction company . |
| 18 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 19 | South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward . |
| 20 | I can never remember my real name so I call myself after whatever day it is . ’ |
| 21 | Once I saw myself as one of a brilliant band of aid workers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A feeling of terror mounted in me , and I dragged myself to the telephone and rang Émile . |
| 25 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
| 26 | I despise you , and I despise myself for needing you , but I do need . ’ |
| 27 | But the PE teacher was strong-willed and I associated myself with him more than anybody else . |
| 28 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 29 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 30 | Blind and foolish I confess myself , but I never willed evil against this house , and I abase myself in acknowledgement of the wrong done , and ask forgiveness . |