Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [verb] myself " in BNC.
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1 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
2 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
3 | I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with . |
4 | He looked so genuinely worried , that I began to doubt myself . |
5 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
6 | I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it . |
7 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
8 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
9 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
10 | There is no space to detail further the model that I used to pursue the problem that I had set myself . |
11 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
12 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
13 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
14 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
15 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
16 | I probably did n't help my cause by being so self-conscious about the whole exercise that I decided to station myself behind a bush . |
17 | Often , a victim of his paralysing shyness , he walked along the far side of the Thames , ‘ sometimes in such wretchedness that I wanted to drown myself . |
18 | I was so disgusted with myself that I wanted to make myself suffer even more when I did — as I knew I would — break my word . |