Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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1 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
2 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
3 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
4 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
5 | I am entering my true life , the life I was prevented from leading — well , that I prevented myself from leading by my stupidity , my incredible folly . |
6 | Mind you I was glad cos I got hell of a temper that I kept myself alright cos I was gon na swing for her like . |
7 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
8 | Mostly I 'm sorry that I hurt myself . |
9 | I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’ |
10 | But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also . |
11 | It does n't matter that I disappointed myself . |
12 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
13 | My girlfriend , after my eleven-month absence , had understandably left me , and it was in the company of my two still-faithful black cats that I threw myself into writing . |
14 | ‘ Oh , I 'm glad that I behaved myself , then , ’ he said , his face clearing suddenly . |
15 | I was such a weary girl that I bored myself . |
16 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
17 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
18 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
19 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
20 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
21 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Although she continued to knit , and sat upright , it was thus that she felt herself ; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures . |
24 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
25 | His gaze was so disturbing that she felt herself trembling . |
26 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
27 | It was then , when it came to her that Vendelin Gajdusek was heady stuff , that she took herself severely to task . |
28 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
29 | That she saw herself not as I so much wanted , as my angel of forgiveness , but as my angel of salvation . |
30 | A married lady who is a leader in social purity movements and an enthusiast for sexual chastity , ( who ) discovered through reading some pamphlets against solitary vice , that she had herself been practising masturbation for years without knowing it . |