Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard no more of the debate and to the astonishment of my fellow delegates I stormed out of the auditorium and locked myself away in the Ladies to howl out my rage , alone . |
| 2 | I ran to the bedroom and heaved myself under the bed , fighting blindly with the magazines . |
| 3 | Anyway , at last I got absolutely blind drunk through depression , went upstairs to Freda 's bedroom and cried myself to sleep . |
| 4 | I 'd join the crimplene brigade , dress out of the Littlewoods club and resign myself to false teeth and a perm by the time I was 30 . |
| 5 | until I opened my mouth and heard myself say it . |
| 6 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 7 | I made sure I did n't put on too much weight and set myself a final goal — to get down to 13 stone . ’ |
| 8 | On another occasion , failing to observe the line of the road , I shot straight into a farmyard and buried myself in a haystack . |
| 9 | handbag and keep myself nice . |
| 10 | I grabbed the top of the fence and pulled myself up until I could rest my forearms there , keeping myself about a foot off the ground by skidding the toes of my trainers — only cleaned last week as well — into the wet wood . |
| 11 | The door was locked but I got out my key and let myself in . |
| 12 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 13 | And so it was my experience not to become closer to him in our isolation but to approach myself more closely . |
| 14 | Feel in urgent need of bracing and hear myself laughing loudly to show how relaxed I am . |
| 15 | I left my office chair to pine for my speedy return and took myself over to the window . |
| 16 | I drop my bag inside the window and hoist myself over the sill to follow it . |
| 17 | I do n't think he meant me harm , but somehow I hit the corner of the wardrobe and got myself a black eye and one or two other bruises … ’ |
| 18 | I ducked around the corner of the alleyway and flattened myself against the wall the way a flounder hugs the ocean floor . |
| 19 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 20 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 21 | I filed them neatly in the waste basket and helped myself to a cigarette . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll probably lose my sense of direction and fall and hurt myself , ’ he sighed . |
| 23 | Yes I 'm going to the street and getting an early lunch and getting myself organized for going out . |
| 24 | I was thinking I would boil the sheets that evening and ask the chemist for a powerful disinfectant and give myself a vinegar douche to get rid of all the germs inside me . |
| 25 | Perfectly safe , until I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and found myself , the only female , in a street lined with male prostitutes . |
| 26 | I strode over to the bookstall and bought myself a map of the place . |
| 27 | I crept along the riverside until I reached the culvert and hid myself among the banks of sweet cicely to read my book . |
| 28 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 29 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to win my first GP and better myself further . |