Example sentences of "[vb past] myself [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I helped myself to some of the raw still-warm liver he was offering , realizing that I was being especially honoured as a guest . |
| 2 | I helped myself to some more red caviare and that wonderful dark sour bread , and watched the cashier noisily adding the takings on an abacus . |
| 3 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 4 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 5 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 6 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |
| 7 | Last summer I really lived it up because I treated myself to some peaches . |
| 8 | I treated myself to some dried dates — very ‘ more-ish ’ so they have been guzzled by this Sunday evening ! |
| 9 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 10 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 11 | I went to my room and calmed myself with some invisible mending . |