Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [verb] myself " in BNC.

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1 I 've got round it with a couple of amplifiers that I 've built myself ; they 're very reliable and they both sound the same .
2 And then I feel that I 've given myself to somebody who thinks my heart is a pretty flower .
3 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 .
4 That we 're reviewing what progress I 've made in the targets that I 've set myself .
5 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 .
6 And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before .
7 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 !
8 I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with .
9 He looked so genuinely worried , that I began to doubt myself .
10 Nor that I wished to give myself in life
11 I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it .
12 I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for .
13 The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were .
14 I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment .
15 There is no space to detail further the model that I used to pursue the problem that I had set myself .
16 I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself .
17 The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer .
18 Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked .
19 Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend .
20 It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique .
21 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 .
22 ‘ I must n't say that I want to feel myself deep inside you ?
23 ‘ I must n't tell you that I want to bury myself in your body ? ’ he enquired .
24 When I 'm being beastly to him , he has such a way of looking sorry for himself that I begin to hate myself .
25 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 .
26 I was so disgusted with myself that I wanted to make myself suffer even more when I did — as I knew I would — break my word .
27 My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings .
28 ‘ But now that I have made myself available for England again it 's important to be part of this Championship . ’
29 ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ?
30 The predictions that I have concerned myself with are rather more critical .
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