Example sentences of "i [verb] myself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In waking life it was too strong to allow me to indulge myself in secret feasts , and I no longer felt any desire for them . |
| 2 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 3 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 4 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 5 | Can I restrict myself to low stocking levels — resisting temptation ? |
| 6 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 7 | Without realizing , I found myself between two groups of youths throwing bottles at each other . |
| 8 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
| 9 | Wandering on , I found myself among dreary council flats , improved by a figure of Joseph holding the Baby high on a wall . |
| 10 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |
| 11 | So I found myself in one of those " Catch 22 " situations and I chose the lesser one , and the one I thought I could defend . |
| 12 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 13 | I helped myself to some of the raw still-warm liver he was offering , realizing that I was being especially honoured as a guest . |
| 14 | I helped myself to some more red caviare and that wonderful dark sour bread , and watched the cashier noisily adding the takings on an abacus . |
| 15 | Did I describe myself as that ? |
| 16 | The reader may have gathered by now that I place myself amongst this group . |
| 17 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 18 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 19 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 20 | Acting on a hunch , I stationed myself at 5.59 p.m. the following Monday , and sure enough I was nearly killed by middle managers trying to get out of the office before the 6 p.m. deadline . |
| 21 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 22 | I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies . |
| 23 | Oh , no ; I enjoy myself like that quite often , ’ Robyn replied lightly , forcing herself not care , to complete the picture he had obviously already formed . |
| 24 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |
| 25 | I locked myself for two days and nights in my room without food or water or sleep . |
| 26 | I availed myself of this service . |
| 27 | ‘ I find myself in complete agreement with Professor Knight and would go further in saying that it is not credible that a karate chop to the base of the nose could cause a fracture of the anterior cranial fossa without considerable damage to the nasal structure . ’ |
| 28 | As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present . |
| 29 | I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need . |
| 30 | I 've , you know , I feel I 've trusted him all my life you know , an now I find myself in this situation . |