Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In waking life it was too strong to allow me to indulge myself in secret feasts , and I no longer felt any desire for them . |
| 2 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 3 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 4 | Can I restrict myself to low stocking levels — resisting temptation ? |
| 5 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 6 | Without realizing , I found myself between two groups of youths throwing bottles at each other . |
| 7 | Wandering on , I found myself among dreary council flats , improved by a figure of Joseph holding the Baby high on a wall . |
| 8 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |
| 9 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 10 | The reader may have gathered by now that I place myself amongst this group . |
| 11 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 12 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 13 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 14 | I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies . |
| 15 | After lunch , Bernice and I armed ourselves with black plastic dustbin liners and we made a concerted attack on Billy 's room . |
| 16 | I locked myself for two days and nights in my room without food or water or sleep . |
| 17 | I availed myself of this service . |
| 18 | ‘ I find myself in complete agreement with Professor Knight and would go further in saying that it is not credible that a karate chop to the base of the nose could cause a fracture of the anterior cranial fossa without considerable damage to the nasal structure . ’ |
| 19 | As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present . |
| 20 | I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need . |
| 21 | I 've , you know , I feel I 've trusted him all my life you know , an now I find myself in this situation . |
| 22 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 23 | Last summer I really lived it up because I treated myself to some peaches . |
| 24 | I did n't do a lot of walkin' , except round the shops , and I treated meself to another 'ansom cab to bring me back . |
| 25 | I dedicate myself to Higher Things . |
| 26 | I astonished myself with this realization . |
| 27 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 28 | I promise I will give you good warning before I avail myself of this privilege . |
| 29 | I throw myself at this Azadi and we wrestle like children in the mud . |
| 30 | I concern myself with general policy . |