Example sentences of "i [vb past] give [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 2 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had to give myself grey ones as it was . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | In the end , I believe the matter to be no more complicated than this : I had given myself too much to do . |
| 8 | I had given myself away . |
| 9 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |