Example sentences of "[vb infin] myself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fuller description of this can be found in the paperback edition of A Presumption of Innocence , so here I will confine myself to the main points . |
| 2 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 3 | As a consequence , I will confine myself to the facts as I understand them . |
| 4 | I really did enjoy myself in the Tests last summer and know I can reproduce that form again . ’ |
| 5 | That being so , ‘ I must immerse myself in the atmosphere of my homeland . ’ |
| 6 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll hang myself from the bars under the light , ’ she said , desperate to sound convincing . |
| 8 | " I might as well resign myself to the fact that Matthew Preston is not out of my life . |
| 9 | Let me be able to wash and dress myself to the last . |
| 10 | Anytime after nine o'clock on the Friday evening I would lock myself into the office with typewriter , plenty of paper and a full bottle of Teacher 's Highland Cream . |
| 11 | It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way . |
| 12 | I 'll cheat myself of the patterns that a beast can register , with its robot-wired mind alert to supernatural vibrations . |
| 13 | May I associate myself with the praise that has been heaped on the know-how fund ? |
| 14 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
| 15 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's full speed ahead for the seasons , and , if I can , I work 12 or 14 hours a day then , because otherwise I ca n't see myself through the quiet times . |
| 17 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |
| 18 | Shevardnadze concluded : " I can not reconcile myself to the events which are taking place in our country and to the trials which await our people . |
| 19 | Almost every line of this surprisingly underrated poem is relevant to the subject in hand , but I will limit myself to the following short extract : |
| 20 | In arguing this I shall limit myself to the internal characteristics of the National Curriculum . |
| 21 | 1 shall limit myself in the rest of this chapter to the most interesting and influential of these theories , those of Ransom and the other Southern critics Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate , and those of W.K. Wimsatt and his collaborator the philosopher Monroe Beardsley ; all of these writers were active mainly in the forties and fifties . |
| 22 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 23 | Only after leaving did I glimpse myself in the mirror . |
| 24 | But I have to ask myself this — would I hate myself in the morning ? ’ |
| 25 | I must content myself with the last verse of a hymn in honour of St Bartholomew : |
| 26 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 27 | In the middle of a still most active social life I am being drawn into an absolute solitude in which I can not even entertain myself with the motions of the teleonomic mechanisms on stage or screen , and making love is equivalent to copulating with a perfectly lifelike mechanical doll . |
| 28 | All I have to do is position myself against the banner . |
| 29 | to actually get myself round the corner . |
| 30 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |