Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need to be able to see the path ahead in order to plan my route well in advance , or else I may get myself into an awkward position . |
| 2 | I must content myself with the last verse of a hymn in honour of St Bartholomew : |
| 3 | That being so , ‘ I must immerse myself in the atmosphere of my homeland . ’ |
| 4 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 5 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 6 | ‘ You think I should equip myself with a similar implement and we could have a duel ? ’ |
| 7 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 8 | The house I now rent could be let again and in all I might find myself with a handsome income . |
| 9 | I 'll cheat myself of the patterns that a beast can register , with its robot-wired mind alert to supernatural vibrations . |
| 10 | I 'll turn myself into a countrywoman yet . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll hang myself from the bars under the light , ’ she said , desperate to sound convincing . |
| 12 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 13 | If I was n't going to enjoy a plethora of gifts and compliments , at least I could soak myself in a great comforting pool of self-pity . |
| 14 | ‘ If you just ring them up you can not understand the problems they face so I thought this would be a good way that I could use myself as a focus on their work . ’ |
| 15 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 16 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 17 | Sometimes at night I 'd find myself beyond the souks in narrow lanes between windowless houses . |
| 18 | If I simply concentrated on reducing the network , I would involve myself in a long and profitless public , political and industrial row . |
| 19 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 20 | Anytime after nine o'clock on the Friday evening I would lock myself into the office with typewriter , plenty of paper and a full bottle of Teacher 's Highland Cream . |
| 21 | ‘ I would describe myself as a Communist but other Socialist traditions are also important . ’ |
| 22 | Amitha : I suppose , if asked , I would describe myself as a Black Gujarati lesbian . |
| 23 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes ’ Cregagh Bonsai owner Stephen Whiteside surrounds himself with the love of his life . |
| 25 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 26 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 27 | I would see myself as a feminist and a socialist and I think socialism is the only form of just government a just way of running any sort of society , that can give people any sort of dignity . |
| 28 | I would declare myself in the waiting-room of a railway station if it were necessary ) , he said that I was humiliating him . |
| 29 | What those consequences are is not too hard to deduce ( see Appendix , A7 ) but , ever conscious of the susceptibilities of my mathematically weaker brethren , I shall content myself with a qualitative discussion . |
| 30 | Althusser denies the need for a more detailed account on the grounds that ‘ As the formal structure of all ideology is always the same , I shall restrict myself to a single example , one accessible to everyone , that of religious ideology , with the proviso that the same demonstration can be produced for ethical , legal , political , aesthetic ideology , etc . ’ |