Example sentences of "i [verb] myself [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I despise you , and I despise myself for needing you , but I do need . ’ |
| 2 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 3 | I hate myself for doing it , but it comes so naturally I have no choice . |
| 4 | I hate myself for asking , but why did you leave ? |
| 5 | ‘ I involved myself by phoning the hotel to find out from the boss what was going on . |
| 6 | On the Scottish cruise I distinguished myself by bending our port propeller on a rock in the Caledonian Canal whilst negotiating a shallow bend , and although we could still use the bent prop I was very conscious of the faux pas with our Chairman on board . |
| 7 | ‘ I amazed myself by ripping the ball at the flag . ’ |
| 8 | I restrict myself to pointing to the human misery that follows on such events and our human and Christian responsibilities in the face of such hardship . |
| 9 | So I consoled myself by reading books — |
| 10 | I consoled myself by drinking a lot of warm red Martini . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 16 | I hated myself for letting you control my life when you despised me . ’ |
| 17 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 18 | I cursed myself for having made such a feeble thing of life before being shot down . |
| 19 | Mind you , I have an idea that this would be good to use as a weaving yarn , but I restrained myself from buying any — I have enough cones in the cupboard , thank you very much . |
| 20 | How else can I stop myself from feeling miserable ? |
| 21 | He added : ‘ If elected , I commit myself to ensuring that a larger and stronger Labour opposition will challenge ceaselessly policies which damage our economy and divide our society . |
| 22 | I console myself with writing up my notes . |
| 23 | I 'll admit from the start that my own attempt to arpeggiate the Gambale way sounds more like Sooty than Sweep picking , but I console myself by thinking that I should n't let a signature model impose another player 's personality on my own style ! |
| 24 | I console myself by reflecting that not only do I have a higher lifetime-best break than he does ( 34–30 ) , I also hold several other table records . |
| 25 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |
| 26 | Afterwards I indulged myself by repeating the words several times . |
| 27 | I saved myself by hurling half a brick into the darkness . |
| 28 | I resigned myself to becoming a brilliant restaurant manager because I thought I had missed my chance of becoming a chef . |
| 29 | Of course , I despised myself for despising them for showing such genuine and unselfish emotions , but that 's just one of the things you have to get used to when you 're in a serious self-destruction spiral . |
| 30 | Eventually , I contemplated myself into making a decision that would build another pond on part of my patio . |