Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [v-ing] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 5 | Afterwards I indulged myself by repeating the words several times . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am writing these lines on the last day of 1986 , the deadline I set myself for reaching the Great Glen with my pen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She cursed herself for spoiling the closeness between them . |
| 13 | She cursed herself for stating the obvious , wished she had taken more note of where they had brought her . |
| 14 | She contented herself with pulling the T-shirt down over her bare stomach . |
| 15 | So she contented herself with giving the reporter what he wanted . |
| 16 | She contented herself by having the official offer letter framed . |
| 17 | Unlike outright slaves , they maintained themselves by cultivating the land conditionally allotted to them by their master . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 21 | He concerned himself with alleviating the slave-like conditions of negroes in the West Indies , and when war broke out in the United States in 1861 he worked at getting financial and material support for emancipated negroes . |
| 22 | For Helfet , the design 's acceptance is a particular triumph , since he prides himself on understanding the Jaguar ethos . |
| 23 | He goaded himself by picturing the ageing President , grey-haired and frail . |
| 24 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 25 | He committed himself to helping the future of rugby when he was elected president of a relaunched Young England Club . |
| 26 | Much as he wanted to pound Ralf into the mud , he contented himself with sending the fellow a narrow-eyed glare which brought a look of respectful caution to the pedlar 's usually cheerful countenance . |
| 27 | Ken lost interest completely , For the moment he contented himself with pinning the notice to the inner door of the club and taking great delight in reading it to two young black guys who had arrived carrying saxophone cases . |
| 28 | He needed no Bible to remind him of the life of Christ , and if ever he felt the need for a symbol upon which to concentrate his devotions , he satisfied himself by making the sign of the cross with his fingers . |
| 29 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 30 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |