Example sentences of "[verb] myself [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 2 | I had to train myself to deal with people and situations and it 's quite possible — once you make your mind up . |
| 3 | None of the village people could help me , and I could not bring myself to beg for food , although by now I felt weak and faint . |
| 4 | I feel that because I ca n't bring myself to talk about it , but on the other hand I ca n't forget it , I joke instead about hating my body , or hating being a girl , or hating men , then I get drunk and cry . |
| 5 | Look , I know it 's asking a lot , but I ca n't bring myself to go through Billy 's things . |
| 6 | On the other hand , there are certainly some Conservatives I could not bring myself to vote for — such as Mr Jack Aspinwall in my neighbouring seat of Wansdyke , who a few years ago was one of an all-party group of MPs who spoke far too warmly about the Ceausescu regime on a visit to Romania , and who lists as his only publication Kindly Sit Down ! , a collection of ‘ after-dinner stories from both Houses of Parliament ’ . |
| 7 | One day I know I wo n't have room for everything but for the moment I wo n't bring myself to part with something I have found , ’ she said . |
| 8 | I could n't bring myself to look at Mavis , with her neat grey bun and demure brooch linking the lapels of her Peter Pan collar . |
| 9 | It would probably read very stale now , if I could bring myself to look at it . |
| 10 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 11 | yeah , him , I ca n't even bring myself to speak to him . |
| 12 | But three years ago — oh blackest day , I ca n't even now bring myself to speak of it — a fall , an injury . |
| 13 | ‘ But those do n't apply to us as they imply a sharing that 's total , and there 's only one area of my life that I can bring myself to share with you . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , in some ways it 's a lot easier because I 've only got myself to think of these days . |
| 15 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 16 | As for morals , I shall have on this policy to refuse to condemn even Hitler 's genocide , although I might permit myself to sneer at it as stupid , because the theories about the Aryan race and the Jewish conspiracy which inspired it were fantasies . |
| 17 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 18 | ‘ I then wrote to Gwen , inviting myself to stay for a few weeks . |
| 19 | When I look back on my marriage I ca n't believe what a fool I was to allow myself to stay in that situation . |
| 20 | I felt quite embarrassed and excused myself to go to the cloakroom . |
| 21 | I ca n't allow myself to rely on anyone , and I ca n't cope with anyone relying on me . |
| 22 | I know I 've never had some of the breaks I deserve but I do n't allow myself to dwell on this . |
| 23 | I cried myself to sleep for days . ’ |
| 24 | I still put myself to sleep by thinking about not lying on a cold pavement covered with newspapers . |
| 25 | I can not get myself to react with critical coolness towards this music ; every tissue , every nerve vibrates in me and it is a long time since I had such an enduring feeling of rapture as when listening to the latter overture . " |
| 26 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
| 27 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 28 | I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to . |
| 29 | ( 10 ) I had myself to look to first of all . |
| 30 | I waited for her to try to scream again , readying myself to leap upon her and bear her down . |