Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took over , the ‘ Whads ’ were already twenty points adrift from the rest of football and while not seeing myself beyond blame entirely , my denial of any involvement in our downfall does not mean my commitment is any less than 110 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ But I can not compare myself with him and I would n't want to . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 4 | I do not regard myself as a Euro-sceptic . |
| 5 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 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 '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 . |
| 8 | A letter to Rohde contains , half-way through , the sign " N.B. " and , at the end , the following : " At the point marked N.B. , a message came calling me into town as soon as I reached the foot of the page ; now returned , I am trembling all over and can not free myself of it even by pouring out my heart to you . |
| 9 | And if I can not rid myself of it I will just have to go into the service and begin to root out the cause . |
| 10 | But it seems that I can not rid myself of this fear of running short of money . |
| 11 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 12 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 13 | I 'm not saving myself for you , or anything , but there 's nothing fuckable for miles . |
| 14 | Even the interview system is not an ideal one — once again you 're having to sell yourself — and if you 're a character actor like I am I can not show myself without being somebody else . |
| 15 | While I can not associate myself with some of the language used by the hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) , many people feel that it is high time that the United States modernised its economic relations with Vietnam and started to observe the common action programme agreed between 24 countries in respect of the Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've not modelled myself on Bruce . |
| 17 | By rights I should be sitting here with Kelly enjoying a cosy chat , not shielding myself from verbal arrows . ’ |
| 18 | I ought to be in bed , he thought , not worrying myself about such things . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was now certain that I could not see myself in any type of residential home in the future . |
| 21 | I barely hold back a hurrah , but can not stop myself from doing a backwards roll during which everything seems to go into slomo and clarify like a TV closeup : my backward roll begins , the picture outside the window slowly slips downward . |
| 22 | But I could not stop myself from more murder . |
| 23 | He told me not to put myself into my work , and not to poeticise things ( I am a poet ! ) . |
| 24 | Ellen was emphatic : — I could not take myself to a Foreign Land as you did Lily and never wanted such a thing and though you would be there that alone would in no way satisfy me and I should be afraid . |
| 25 | I was absolutely determined not to expose myself to the sort of pain that love can bring . ’ |
| 26 | I could not restrain myself from hastening to view one of those Druid circles , of which there are so many in the Isle of Lewis ; that given in the small vignette is the first one I reached . |
| 27 | If I had ever loved you , if I loved you still , I could not hate myself for my weakness as much as I do now . ’ |
| 28 | If you behave like this , you will understand that I can not permit myself to be alone with you . ’ |
| 29 | But I will not humiliate myself by trying to justify what I do . |
| 30 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |