Example sentences of "i [verb] give [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I intend to give myself a reward , ’ Merrill said , going over to his window and closing it . |
| 2 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 3 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 4 | Why do I have to give myself galloping shingles and chronic insomnia just so as the critic of the Evening Standard can say , ‘ Maureen Lipman is to the world of chat show hosts what Frank Bruno is to the world of petit-point ’ ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 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 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it . |
| 8 | ‘ I keep giving myself little deadlines for when the transplant will happen , ’ she says . |
| 9 | I had to give myself grey ones as it was . |
| 10 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 11 | In the end , I believe the matter to be no more complicated than this : I had given myself too much to do . |
| 12 | I had given myself away . |
| 13 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 14 | It 's pretty much ready to go but I 'm quite keen to extend this playtime period I 've given myself . |
| 15 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 16 | And then I feel that I 've given myself to somebody who thinks my heart is a pretty flower . |
| 17 | I think I 've given myself too much dinner . |
| 18 | Well I 'm gon na come out , I said er , I 'm going to , I 'm gon na get well , I 've given myself a fortnight this weekend |
| 19 | ‘ At least I have given myself a fighting chance of getting to Wembley . |
| 20 | ‘ I lived in his house for three weeks , unable to go out , in such an agony of self-disgust and fear that many times I wanted to give myself up . |
| 21 | My appointment was in Alès at eleven and I wanted to give myself plenty of time to find the place , so I decided to leave straight away . |