Example sentences of "[vb base] myself a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can with a few deft strokes build myself a crenellated castle with coloured windows , or a maze of evergreen , or a field of rippling corn , or a fat blackbird with bright eyes picking at a cluster of red berries . |
| 2 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 3 | She was thinking this so hard that she was not surprised when he stood up and said , " I 'm going to drop around to Felicity 's and get myself a real bath . " |
| 4 | I go and pour myself a generous gin from the bottle I bought on Thursday and add a dash of orange for colour . |
| 5 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |
| 6 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , at the end of October 1944 , in moving a resolution for the annual prolongation of Parliament , Churchill had declared , have myself a clear view that it would be wrong to continue this Parliament beyond the period of the German war' . |
| 8 | Nevertheless one can hardly hope to discuss knowledge in a language any less metaphorical than Descartes ' ( I have myself a few paragraphs back analogized not only to seeing but to ‘ glimpsing ’ and being ‘ illuminated ’ by a ‘ flash ’ , not only to clarity but to drawing a ‘ clear line ’ ) . |