Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " 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 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it . |
| 14 | When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine . |
| 15 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 16 | I had to force myself up the path to his front door . |
| 17 | I had to force myself down the street to his house . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because I need to purge myself of the past more than anything . |
| 20 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | Sometimes children like to list the names of the members of their family and in this way we can help them to count how many there are , and help them to remember to include themselves in the count ! |
| 25 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 26 | His appointment as a Bishop , was in the immediate aftermath of the closing of the Second Vatican Council ; which was to pose new challenges to the whole Church as she sought to renew herself under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit . |
| 27 | After this she ceased to blame herself for the breakdown of their marriage , but instead expressed considerable anger towards her husband . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | But it comes down to how openly you want to express yourself as a Muslim . |