Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 3 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 4 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Elizabeth : I 'm here not representing anything , but I do define myself as a revolutionary and radical feminist . |
| 9 | When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine . |
| 10 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |
| 11 | ‘ I had got myself in a very foolish position . |
| 12 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 13 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 14 | I 've asked myself since a hundred times . |
| 15 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 16 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 17 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 18 | ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ? |
| 19 | I have described myself as a loner with the profession of an artist-writer . |
| 20 | I have indulged myself in a sentimental browse through the Gongsters , replete with the customary reports of student apathy and financial hardship , and deplored the style of the couple of rugby match reports I contributed . |
| 21 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 22 | It was the first time in my life I wanted to carry myself as a woman , not like a weird , kinda little ragamuffin girl . ’ |
| 23 | I can not say how strange it was , how peculiarly dead I felt , when I awoke to find myself at a distance from my father . |
| 24 | PC Works 3.0 is an enhanced version of Microsoft Works ( known as MS Works ) which has established itself as a very popular integrated package . |
| 25 | Cairns lives off the tourist potential of the rain forest , the barrier reef , and some strenuous activities such as bungy jumping which means throwing yourself off a tall cliff at the end of a elastic rope . |
| 26 | This betrayal appears to have provoked a large-scale opposition — as it were , an alternative ‘ fundamentalist ’ priesthood , militantly at odds with the established one which had prostituted itself to an illegitimate king . |
| 27 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 28 | 'E 's got 'imself in a bit o' trouble , ’ she said in a whisper . |
| 29 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 30 | You want to sacrifice yourself in a bloody revolution that will have no hope of success , and you want to sacrifice hundreds , perhaps thousands of young lives with you ! |