Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray .
2 I made myself a nice profit out of it .
3 A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island .
4 I got myself a larger size and even they seemed to be pretty neat .
5 So , impressed by him , I got myself a bass guitar .
6 I got myself a few commissions — did I tell you I was thinking of going freelance ? ’
7 I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin .
8 And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force .
9 One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video .
10 I poured myself a huge whisky .
11 I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down .
12 I allowed myself a brief glance at Alison 's ample contours .
13 Choir night , so I get myself an early supper .
14 Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news .
15 Consequentially , when I saw him marching swiftly towards me I permitted myself a brief groan .
16 I find myself the only thing is to change the subject .
17 When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me .
18 Late that night I ask myself the age-old question .
19 It is the most beautiful thing you will ever wear — until I surpass myself the next time ! ’
20 ‘ It is beautiful , ’ she said coyly , ‘ it is the most beautiful dress I will ever wear , until I surpass myself the next time . ’
21 I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing .
22 Many years ago I knitted myself a sleeveless jumper in mercerised cotton ; this stretched in the wash until it was more like a mini-dress .
23 Soon after taking up my job as cub reporter I bought myself a big radio and a gramophone and continued collecting recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan and classical music .
24 She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life .
25 Distracted from my course in self-improvement , I mixed myself a brutal martini and fell to pondering such juxtapositions .
26 Nevertheless one can hardly hope to discuss knowledge in a language any less metaphorical than Descartes ' ( I have myself a few paragraphs back analogized not only to seeing but to ‘ glimpsing ’ and being ‘ illuminated ’ by a ‘ flash ’ , not only to clarity but to drawing a ‘ clear line ’ ) .
27 A pressure group , which calls itself the Coordinating Committee on Depo-Provera , has submitted 400 pages of evidence to the appeal panel , which began hearings this week .
28 The anti-democratic movement , which calls itself the anti-tribal movement , is considering widening the net in its search for suitable replacement students .
29 It also conveyed the message that the CFLN — which renamed itself the Provisional Government of the French Republic ( GPRF — Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Français ) as of June 1944 — had a role beyond liberation .
30 Going through to the kitchen , she made herself a hot drink , and carried it into the room where the fire was at last beginning to heat up the air a little .
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