Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 6 | When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |
| 9 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 10 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 11 | I had to force myself up the path to his front door . |
| 12 | I had to force myself down the street to his house . |
| 13 | ‘ I had got myself in a very foolish position . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 've asked myself since a hundred times . |
| 20 | After all , I 've seen myself in the mirror . |
| 21 | I 've already explained to you how I 've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview . |
| 22 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've established myself in the Premier League and struck up a good relationship with the fans . ’ |
| 24 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 25 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ? |
| 27 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 28 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I have described myself as a loner with the profession of an artist-writer . |