Example sentences of "let myself [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I had lied , and I had let myself be used by evil . |
2 | In fact , I had once or twice let myself be tempted into making overtures to her . |
3 | You know I always let myself be advised by you , and of course I 'll bow to your judgement on this if I have to … |
4 | But if ‘ Be aware ’ requires me to be aware both of you and of myself both from your viewpoint and from mine , it requires me also to let myself be moved towards both your goals and mine , as a necessary condition of becoming aware from either viewpoint . |
5 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
6 | But I also discover both reactions of my own which are in their power , and reactions of theirs which are in mine , so that the drive towards sovereignty urges me , either to dominate , or to let myself be drawn to the viewpoint of the stronger and submit . |
7 | The other perceives , I merely imagine ; he suffers , I merely simulate his distress by letting myself be moved by what I imagine . |
8 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |