Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [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 tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 5 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 6 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 7 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 10 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Seriously , I did offer myself to the Lord , but when the opportunity came , it was quite a shock . |
| 15 | When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine . |
| 16 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |
| 17 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |
| 18 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 19 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 20 | I had to force myself up the path to his front door . |
| 21 | I had to force myself down the street to his house . |
| 22 | ‘ I had got myself in a very foolish position . |
| 23 | I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed . |
| 24 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 25 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
| 26 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 27 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 28 | It was the first time in my life I wanted to carry myself as a woman , not like a weird , kinda little ragamuffin girl . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |