Example sentences of "myself [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 2 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 3 | I braced myself for the explosion but luckily it went between the wheels . |
| 4 | I 'm a single parent , and I blame myself for the way he is — but I feel it 's too late to get through to him now as talking or reasoning does n't work . |
| 5 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 6 | If they had worked on me enough , I 'd have blown the whistle on myself for the Lindbergh kidnapping , the bombing of Pearl Harbor , the Cleveland Torso slayings , betraying West Point to the British , fixing the 1919 World Series and souring all the milk in Salem , Massachusetts . |
| 7 | I brace myself for the sight of the posters , unrolled and exposed , and the dole cards . |
| 8 | I 've an idea myself for the golf er |
| 9 | I rise to return thanks on behalf of my fellow guests and myself for the honour you have done us , and the pleasure you have given us , by asking us to share in this , your annual occasion . |
| 10 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |
| 11 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 12 | And braced myself for the deluge of his anger . |
| 13 | The best deal I can do on the airfares is £870 — this includes a small fee for myself for the administration . |
| 14 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 15 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 16 | As Crilly can not drive , I ply myself with junk food and coffee , preparing myself for the wheel . |
| 17 | The theatre director Schuh was there and he saw me sitting by myself during the interval . |
| 18 | I pushed myself through the agony of broaching the subject of Mark 's death and then , when I had the opportunity to finish the deed and expose the truth of my association , tell Luke what a low-down swine he is , I crumbled like a coward . |
| 19 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 20 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 21 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 22 | Medical Referrals and other Referrals will therefore now be sent to Lothian Health Board with myself as the Contact Officer . |
| 23 | I look upon myself as the kind of producer who is more of a musical supervisor , someone who is responsible for the artistic liaison between the artist and the nature of the finished product . |
| 24 | He does n't take rivalry with him off the competitive track , and at that time I considered him to be the Master with myself as the apprentice . |
| 25 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 26 | I had again beaten the top sprinters of Europe , firmly establishing myself as the continent 's number one . |
| 27 | After a further telephone interview — this time with myself as the interviewee — for the Radio Times , it seemed I was finished . |
| 28 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
| 29 | I have reservations myself about the access at Shilton dip , but I would suggest to the County Surveyor that if Shilton dip is dangerous for a potential site of gipsies , then it 's just as dangerous for the people who live in Shilton right now . |
| 30 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |