Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [to-vb] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked so genuinely worried , that I began to doubt myself . |
| 2 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 3 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 4 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 5 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I must n't say that I want to feel myself deep inside you ? |
| 10 | ‘ I must n't tell you that I want to bury myself in your body ? ’ he enquired . |
| 11 | When I 'm being beastly to him , he has such a way of looking sorry for himself that I begin to hate myself . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |