Example sentences of "[prep] myself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 32 | I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger . |
| 33 | If they had worked on me enough , I 'd have blown the whistle on myself for the Lindbergh kidnapping , the bombing of Pearl Harbor , the Cleveland Torso slayings , betraying West Point to the British , fixing the 1919 World Series and souring all the milk in Salem , Massachusetts . |
| 34 | The best deal I can do on the airfares is £870 — this includes a small fee for myself for the administration . |
| 35 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 36 | We 've got scouse rather than Leeds tickets for Saturday , and I think I 've got a kop ticket for myself at the Oldham game . |
| 37 | So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er |
| 38 | She told me : ‘ I was really upset to read that an ‘ insider ’ , whoever that might be , had said I was so busy creating an image for myself in the music industry and trying to be a film star that I could only do four episodes of the latest series . |
| 39 | ‘ I 'd like to substitute Paul Littlejohn for myself in the power of attorney that I hold on your behalf , Elinor . |
| 40 | I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals . |
| 41 | Nothing , blessed state for the hard-working Crispin , and for myself after the turmoil of exams and end of term . |
| 42 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 43 | But here I am talking blissfully about myself in the old fashion ! |
| 44 | It is one thing to claim that by sharing in a dramatic exploration of a theme I can learn something about myself in the process , and quite another to suggest the drama is for me and about me . |
| 45 | It was at this period that I began to think about myself in the third person : Elizabeth is compassionate and considerate , she thinks how other people might feel . |
| 46 | Instead [ she will ] use the word ‘ participant ’ , and ‘ include data about myself in the research , as one of the participants ’ , as if equality between subjects and psychologists was simply a matter of presenting more data and using more liberal words ( 1986 : 29 ) . |
| 47 | There were certain things about myself in the classroom I noticed . |
| 48 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
| 49 | This awful pain eating away at me is simply anger at myself for the stupid situation I 'm in now . |
| 50 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
| 51 | I have another look at myself in the mirror . |
| 52 | I grin at myself in the mirror . |
| 53 | I look up at myself in the mirror while I 'm soaking my hands . |
| 54 | I smile at myself in the mirror . |
| 55 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 56 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 57 | I would look at myself in the mirror , check out the grey hairs , trace the emerging lines and fading lip line and ask myself , ‘ Why ? ’ |
| 58 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 59 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
| 60 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |