Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] i [verb] [verb] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
| 2 | I probably did n't help my cause by being so self-conscious about the whole exercise that I decided to station myself behind a bush . |
| 3 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 4 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 5 | The pages ( 990 of them ) are full of helpful screen diagrams but I missed the ‘ idiot 's ’ step by step command style that I 've convinced myself I need in a manual — but then Windows 3.1 secrets is n't FOR idiot 's . |
| 6 | It is for this reason that I have confined myself to novels concerned with the period before 1914 . |
| 7 | Often , a victim of his paralysing shyness , he walked along the far side of the Thames , ‘ sometimes in such wretchedness that I wanted to drown myself . |
| 8 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 9 | There is no space to detail further the model that I used to pursue the problem that I had set myself . |
| 10 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |