Example sentences of "i gave myself [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha . |
| 3 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 4 | I gave myself away to everybody : fat , high , low , ugly , perfumed and badly-smelling . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I gave myself away ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |