Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence . |
| 2 | We all have the right to change our mind … and that 's why I hate committing myself in print about these personal things . |
| 3 | ‘ No disrespect to you , Marge , but I want to save myself for when I get married . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 5 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 6 | ‘ I must n't tell you that I want to bury myself in your body ? ’ he enquired . |
| 7 | I feel frustrated rather than embarrassed , because I want to prove myself to Celtic fans . |
| 8 | Recognizing all this , and being shown too where the power lies in this social order , the politics of inversion become persuasive , perhaps irresistible ; this is Moll , about to thrash the predatory Laxton : ‘ I scorn to prostitute myself to a man , /that can prostitute a man to me ’ ( iii . |
| 9 | Erm , I seem to find myself in this committee in a minority of one . |
| 10 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I like to involve myself in everything . |
| 12 | ‘ I might make a little bit more than a social worker and I get to enjoy myself with my clients ’ . |
| 13 | It 's a funny thing but I remember gritting myself for Kirk for about two months because of his reputation for being difficult . |
| 14 | The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me , so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body . |
| 15 | I go to prepare myself for self-immolation . ’ |
| 16 | I try to put myself in their shoes , because it can not be emphasized often enough that business is very much like war , despite the optimistic view that there is enough scope and space for everybody to be successful . |
| 17 | ‘ I try to put myself in other people 's shoes . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it . |
| 19 | Now I try to surround myself with as many influences as I can and avoid all that . |
| 20 | Elizabeth : I 'm here not representing anything , but I do define myself as a revolutionary and radical feminist . |
| 21 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's another fine mess I 've gotten myself into . |
| 23 | I know I might go to jail , but I 've prepared myself for it . |
| 24 | I 've asked myself since a hundred times . |
| 25 | I 'd live off my wits even though I 've geared myself to be a footballer . |
| 26 | ‘ No , I 've kept myself to myself for most of my life . |
| 27 | All that time I 've kept myself in trim . |
| 28 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 29 | After all , I 've seen myself in the mirror . |
| 30 | And then I feel that I 've given myself to somebody who thinks my heart is a pretty flower . |