Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 2 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 6 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 8 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 9 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Alas , all good things come to an end and with a mixture of breast stroke and doggy paddle I managed to beach myself onto the belay . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it . |
| 13 | Seriously , I did offer myself to the Lord , but when the opportunity came , it was quite a shock . |
| 14 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |
| 15 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 16 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 17 | I had to force myself up the path to his front door . |
| 18 | I had to force myself down the street to his house . |
| 19 | I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed . |
| 20 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 21 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After all , I 've seen myself in the mirror . |
| 24 | I 've already explained to you how I 've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've established myself in the Premier League and struck up a good relationship with the fans . ’ |
| 26 | Because I need to purge myself of the past more than anything . |
| 27 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 28 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 29 | When I finish playing , I hope to follow Mick Channon into racing but before that happens I have to prove myself in the Premier League . |
| 30 | I have permitted myself throughout the useful abbreviation ‘ iff ’ for ‘ if and only if ’ . |