Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I involved myself by phoning the hotel to find out from the boss what was going on . |
| 2 | ‘ I amazed myself by ripping the ball at the flag . ’ |
| 3 | I consoled myself by drinking a lot of warm red Martini . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 6 | Afterwards I indulged myself by repeating the words several times . |
| 7 | I resigned myself to becoming a brilliant restaurant manager because I thought I had missed my chance of becoming a chef . |
| 8 | Eventually , I contemplated myself into making a decision that would build another pond on part of my patio . |
| 9 | As the buzz or the haze receded , and as I chewed the last tasteless fragment of sandwiched thermoplastic , I steadied myself by counting the melamine tables and counting the chairs and counting the customers and counting the sticky sauce bottles and the dome-shaped salt cellars and the cups , the plates , the cutlery , the ashtrays , anything in sight . |
| 10 | I pride myself on having a slightly more sophisticated sense of humour than that . ’ |
| 11 | I am writing these lines on the last day of 1986 , the deadline I set myself for reaching the Great Glen with my pen . |
| 12 | Meantime at Southampton University , which prides itself on having the largest optoelectronics research group in the UK with 100 scientists , its own fabrication facilities and 35 dark room labs , activities are focussed on a variety of optical fibre , laser and sensor devices . |
| 13 | Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor . |
| 14 | A durian dilettante is a breed apart : there are even special clubs which devote themselves to following the durian season round the entire archipelago — feasting and waxing lyrical on the fruit 's narcotic delights . |
| 15 | The attempt to put a stop to the moving earth stands out because it proved so tragic an aberration — a personal tragedy for Galileo and , in the long run , a tragedy for the Church , which overreached itself in securing a territory that would prove impossible to hold . |
| 16 | She busied herself with retrieving the carrier of wet clothes from the seat behind , desperate to end this short-lived but uniquely humiliating experience and yet finding that to end it here , like this , would be the final humiliation of all . |
| 17 | If you committed yourself to doing every exercise in Part Two in the order given , you would miss an opportunity to ‘ listen to the whispers ’ which guide you towards what you need , right now , as a unique individual . |
| 18 | She cursed herself for spoiling the closeness between them . |
| 19 | She cursed herself for stating the obvious , wished she had taken more note of where they had brought her . |
| 20 | She contented herself with pulling the T-shirt down over her bare stomach . |
| 21 | So she contented herself with giving the reporter what he wanted . |
| 22 | She contented herself by having the official offer letter framed . |
| 23 | To be named in Red Channels was to be unemployable … unless you cleared yourself by making a voluntary appearance before the House Committee or McCarthy 's Sub-Committee as a ‘ friendly witness ’ who shopped his former friends to prove the ‘ sincerity ’ of his repentance . |
| 24 | She occupied herself with studying a map on the opposite wall because she knew she would have to change trains at some point . |
| 25 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 26 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 27 | Unlike outright slaves , they maintained themselves by cultivating the land conditionally allotted to them by their master . |
| 28 | On Nov. 27 , following direct talks brokered by the UN , dos Santos and Savimbi issued the " Namibie Declaration " in which they committed themselves to accepting the Bicesse Peace Accord and implementing a ceasefire , and to a continuing UN presence in the country . |
| 29 | They committed themselves to placing the framework within a comprehensive political settlement at a future meeting of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia [ see pp. 36848-49 for meeting of Paris Conference in August 1989 ] . |
| 30 | After a home game in the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Stadium im Prenzlauer Berg , they distinguished themselves by forming a 200-strong human swastika around the statues of Marx and Engels in front of the Volkskammer ( the old GDR parliament ) . |