Example sentences of "that i [vb past] myself [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’
5 But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also .
6 I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism .
7 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 .
8 ‘ 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 ! ’
9 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 .
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