Example sentences of "[vb infin] myself [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll consider myself put in my place . ’ |
| 2 | None of the village people could help me , and I could not bring myself to beg for food , although by now I felt weak and faint . |
| 3 | I feel that because I ca n't bring myself to talk about it , but on the other hand I ca n't forget it , I joke instead about hating my body , or hating being a girl , or hating men , then I get drunk and cry . |
| 4 | Look , I know it 's asking a lot , but I ca n't bring myself to go through Billy 's things . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there are certainly some Conservatives I could not bring myself to vote for — such as Mr Jack Aspinwall in my neighbouring seat of Wansdyke , who a few years ago was one of an all-party group of MPs who spoke far too warmly about the Ceausescu regime on a visit to Romania , and who lists as his only publication Kindly Sit Down ! , a collection of ‘ after-dinner stories from both Houses of Parliament ’ . |
| 6 | One day I know I wo n't have room for everything but for the moment I wo n't bring myself to part with something I have found , ’ she said . |
| 7 | I could n't bring myself to look at Mavis , with her neat grey bun and demure brooch linking the lapels of her Peter Pan collar . |
| 8 | It would probably read very stale now , if I could bring myself to look at it . |
| 9 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 10 | yeah , him , I ca n't even bring myself to speak to him . |
| 11 | But three years ago — oh blackest day , I ca n't even now bring myself to speak of it — a fall , an injury . |
| 12 | ‘ But those do n't apply to us as they imply a sharing that 's total , and there 's only one area of my life that I can bring myself to share with you . ’ |
| 13 | But at the end of the week , when I knew the actor was due back , I could n't prevent myself waiting for his call . |
| 14 | Since I hated the police , it was natural that I should feel myself aligned with the prostitutes . |
| 15 | It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often . |
| 16 | Remembering the visit to the cotton mill , on the other hand , I can see myself watching from the polished floor ; I am in the picture . |
| 17 | I love the club and I can not see myself playing for anyone else . ’ |
| 18 | He said on the one hand he was agreeing with you , right that i it does n't matter how good a cyclist you are it 's the fucking car drivers , nine times out of ten , that cause the accidents on and then , on the other hand he was saying but I do n't see I I ca n't se ever see myself coming off you know , he 's fucking stupid ! |
| 19 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't see myself going into coaching , ’ says Ellcock , ‘ That 's just not me . |
| 21 | I could n't stop myself thinking of the nights she had spent with Harry and wanting to know how much she had enjoyed them . |
| 22 | I could not stop myself thinking of Lilliput . |
| 23 | As for morals , I shall have on this policy to refuse to condemn even Hitler 's genocide , although I might permit myself to sneer at it as stupid , because the theories about the Aryan race and the Jewish conspiracy which inspired it were fantasies . |
| 24 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 25 | I will take it easy and I will have myself checked by a doctor . |
| 26 | ‘ You know very well that you are not ; if you were so , I should have myself driven to some other park . ’ |
| 27 | I could hear myself groaning like an old pig ! and the doctor told me to use all that energy I was expending on the noise to push with ! |
| 28 | I can hear myself running through a subway , sobbing and stumbling , with footsteps behind me , like a terrifying nightmare . |
| 29 | One thing was clear in the confusion-that I could not even let myself think about the matter unless my physical health was up to it . |
| 30 | I tell myself that I will let myself lie in bed for another five minutes though I stipulate that I am not allowed to go back to sleep and that I have to count out the five-minutes in my head . |