Example sentences of "[v-ing] myself [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 2 | Yes I 'm going to the street and getting an early lunch and getting myself organized for going out . |
| 3 | I suppose now that I could have freaked out and started smashing the place up , getting myself expelled as a result . |
| 4 | I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction . |
| 5 | … having myself graduated in Business over 40 years ago , there seems to be a remarkable cycle in which we return to particular models every few decades . |
| 6 | ‘ I then wrote to Gwen , inviting myself to stay for a few weeks . |
| 7 | Making myself known to the Press Department of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Centre , I was first taken to see the James Melton Show , another extremely popular national network feature . |
| 8 | I am enjoying myself playing with the autopilot , either adjusting the trim with the ‘ coolie hat ’ on top of the cyclic or playing disconnect , move and reset as an alternative . |
| 9 | I waited for her to try to scream again , readying myself to leap upon her and bear her down . |
| 10 | I seemed to be watching myself acting in a film . |
| 11 | I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk . |