Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since he obviously had n't recognised me , I did n't want to connect myself with the house , until I 'd found out what his game was . ’ |
| 2 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | Dana would fall asleep immediately he put his head on the pillow , and after a while I had to try to extract myself from his embrace . |
| 7 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 8 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 9 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 10 | After all , I do n't need to insure myself against Maurice 's treachery any more , do I ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 12 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 13 | ‘ No disrespect to you , Marge , but I want to save myself for when I get married . ’ |
| 14 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 15 | ‘ I must n't tell you that I want to bury myself in your body ? ’ he enquired . |
| 16 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 17 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 18 | I feel frustrated rather than embarrassed , because I want to prove myself to Celtic fans . |
| 19 | And I , I used to sort of sit in er put sit myself in my little erm bunk you know ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 22 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I gathered my courage , and turned , prepared to look myself in the face . |
| 26 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd told myself for weeks that our wedding night would be such a moving experience for both of us that you 'd suddenly realise you were in love with me , and tell me , and everything would end happily ever after . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 29 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 30 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |