Example sentences of "i [vb past] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked myself . |
| 2 | I asked myself and returned to folding the froth into the coffee . |
| 3 | As I accelerated my pace I asked myself what I was doing here , and I did n't know the answer . |
| 4 | ‘ It was then I asked myself , ‘ Is this all worth it ? ’ ’ |
| 5 | I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ? |
| 6 | Would it be feasible , I asked myself , to fill what for some time I had thought was a serious gap in British military history , namely a socio-military chronicle of the last hundred years of the army 's mounted arm ? |
| 7 | So I asked myself why less sensitive tackle should be more successful than anything else . |
| 8 | One of the questions I asked myself was what could possibly have gone wrong ? |
| 9 | What indeed , I asked myself . |
| 10 | Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself . |
| 11 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 12 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 13 | I asked myself what chance was there … within the next year or two of that feeling being so changed that the country would give a mandate for rearmament ? |
| 14 | What sort of woman , I asked myself , drops into a jeweller 's for a brooch costing thousands of francs , between buying a gigot and a gâteau St Honoré ? |
| 15 | I asked myself why Jean-Claude left me in the dark . |
| 16 | I asked myself what I would feel if on his journey back to Paris he had an accident . |
| 17 | I asked myself . |
| 18 | I asked myself . |
| 19 | I asked myself . |
| 20 | When we did the rehearsal again and Steven got it right I asked myself , has he played this scene before ? |
| 21 | I asked myself . |
| 22 | Could it possibly be mere chance , I asked myself , that this manna from God knew where just happened to be my absolute favourites bar none ? |
| 23 | I asked myself . |
| 24 | Is this all there is to life , I asked myself . ’ |
| 25 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 26 | ‘ So I asked myself , where would you go ? |
| 27 | So I asked myself where else would you be but at Tivoli watching the ballet ? ’ |
| 28 | Is this what the devastation of war means , I asked myself ? |
| 29 | I gazed until I asked myself if I was quite mad . |
| 30 | In the end I asked myself why I should be trapped in there while they walked about freely . |