Example sentences of "i have [verb] myself a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 2 | I will try to enjoy the whole weekend and with everyone 's help I have set myself a target to raise 1,000 for CLIC . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I had fancied myself a connoisseur of contrast , a gourmet savouring the sweet-and-sour clash between my present lifestyle and the one I had left behind me in East Oxford . |
| 5 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 6 | I had earned myself a little more time to think . |
| 7 | I had found myself a champion ! |
| 8 | Well we kept on like that and er er people like that we were packing up wholesale so erm I 've lost myself a little bit now . |
| 9 | Christ all bloody mighty , she was thinking , I 've landed myself a good one here ! |
| 10 | And I 've done myself a on that reckoning , because until we 've got that sorted anyway . |
| 11 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | ‘ At least I have given myself a fighting chance of getting to Wembley . |
| 14 | I left a note for Threfall saying , ‘ I have bought myself a ticket and gone to Chicago to apologise to Binks for the ill-mannered attitude of the Pye Group management ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have fined myself a week 's wages and will be giving the money to charity . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have set myself a target of winning every domestic honour . |
| 17 | I have to make myself a place , you know ? |
| 18 | ‘ I have not yet joined the Pioneers , ’ wrote Fritz on 15 November , ‘ but I have got myself a job as a radio reporter with the United Press of America . |