Example sentences of "[v-ing] myself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Still , at least you seem to appreciate I 've given you the plum job , whilst landing myself with the task of keeping an eye on Fedorov . |
| 2 | I 'm not patting myself on the back — it 's a highly competitive business and one needs selfish , single-minded dedication to succeed , but because female comics were rare in my day , competition was negligible , and I was able to be generous . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I replied , launching myself at the Moroccan fabric , ‘ he has n't blown the gaff on my war wound , has he ? |
| 4 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 5 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 6 | ‘ I see now what a mistake it was to listen to her , but she planted the seed quite naturally , in her own devious little way , and I thought about it , torturing myself with the knowledge that it was a possibility . |
| 7 | I had again beaten the top sprinters of Europe , firmly establishing myself as the continent 's number one . |
| 8 | After establishing myself in the team I have only been dropped once , that was by John Duncan and I deserved it . ’ |
| 9 | " This is Miss Graham , " I said , surprising myself by the furtive urgency in my own voice . |
| 10 | WILLIAMS : Sir , the French Telemachus , for I am about perfecting myself in the French tongue . |
| 11 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 12 | Pulling myself to the ceiling with one finger |
| 13 | Cleaning myself to the best of my ability , I left the hut and set out downhill , in what I hoped was the direction of Geneva . |
| 14 | Early this year I secluded myself up here for a life of quiet , concentrated study and meditation , rediscovering myself in the vastness and solitude of the mountains . |
| 15 | ‘ I have ways of getting myself to the kitchens , ’ said the Bookman . |
| 16 | It was the thought of facing myself in the morning light , followed by a swift but burnished appearance on a TV arts review programme later that day , that had caused me to wake up damp and thudding . |
| 17 | I got to my feet , supporting myself on the side of the shelter . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe I was n't disgracing myself on the park , but I was cheating the Sheffield fans and manager Jimmy Sirrell . |
| 19 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
| 20 | I want to upgrade to a much larger reef tank in the near future , but first should I gain much-needed experience in keeping invertebrates before committing myself to the expense of failure with a large tank ? |
| 21 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
| 22 | Feel like cutting myself down the middle ! |
| 23 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ I take this opportunity of dedicating myself to the service of my constituents and in any capacity whatsoever to the people of my country . |
| 25 | I start screaming and chucking myself against the window , but it wo n't break . |
| 26 | For the first time since then I 'm convinced we wo n't win , and start mentally realigning myself to the joys of a hung parliament . |
| 27 | I lay rigid , willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again . |
| 28 | I walk along the side of the motel scratching myself on the pebble dash , for carelessness . |
| 29 | I borrowed a ballpoint from the uniform at the front desk and did the honest thing with my address , consigning myself to the bowels of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre 's billion-shilling brain down in Wild West Wales . |
| 30 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |