Example sentences of "i give myself " in BNC.

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1 It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed .
2 Therefore with generosity ( I give myself ) and gentleness ( I kiss the beast ) and no-shame ( I do what I do of my own free will ) and forgiveness ( he ca n't help himself ) .
3 I give myself a pat on the back for every question which I answered in a way which led the pupils deeper into the problem .
4 I give myself two pats on the back for every answer which started with ‘ I do n't know but what if … ’ because these answers show that I regard the investigation as a shared experience .
5 If I give myself up , I 'll be charged with murder . ’
6 I give myself one hundred and twenty new panes to varnish round , who says we grows wiser as we grows old .
7 It 's not just a case of him taking us with all of what we had and were and us belonging to him , but he says i in taking you to myself , he says I give myself to you .
8 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 …
9 I gave myself to him completely , both as a human being and as an artist .
10 In a ghost town , silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste , I gave myself a history lesson .
11 I gave myself a minute or two to get my nerves under control and ventured outside the cloud , briefly at first then more confidently when it was apparent that the danger had passed .
12 I gave myself away to everybody : fat , high , low , ugly , perfumed and badly-smelling . ’
13 So I gave myself the day off . ’
14 I gave myself a pat on the back though and carried on through Cross Rift into Selenite Passage where the rock sparkles with the glassy selenite running through the walls .
15 I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha .
16 No answer from me — if there was an Umpire , he would know what was in my heart — instead I gave myself orders , pumping myself up with little pecks of the head : Concentrate .
17 Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse .
18 So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval .
19 I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing .
20 The question slipped out before I gave myself time to consider the wisdom of it .
21 I had already acquired the address from the ‘ yellow pages ’ and estimated that it was a ten mile drive , thus I gave myself half an hour to account for delays .
22 I gave myself away ? ’
23 I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer .
24 I gave myself ones for like erm like ability like I know I 'm good at it but effort was like three , you know , I 'm below a but they , they 're stupid because it was either above average or below average and what 's just average , it was okay , I 've been really okay .
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