Example sentences of "and [v-ing] yourself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow you got down here , where you have been since , quietly starving and poisoning yourself to death . |
| 2 | Whenever you go to a new site , start your search by burying a couple of coins and reminding yourself of the different note each one makes in your headphones . |
| 3 | It is , and keeping yourself in trim is very important when you 're not working . |
| 4 | Slipping and injuring yourself in the bath is not only painful but life-threatening . |
| 5 | Whatever course you adopt , you must avoid overstocking the land and overcommitting yourself in the early stages . |
| 6 | Leaving work and consigning yourself to the dole queue is obviously risky . |
| 7 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 8 | It is no case of packing a portmanteau , whistling at the door for a hansom , arriving at the station ten minutes before the train starts , giving a sixpence to the civil porter , and finding yourself under way with an open magazine on your knees . |
| 9 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 10 | You can revolt against it by a breakdown in health or morale , going what the Americans call stir-crazy' ; or you can accept it calmly , as just a temporary ‘ pause ’ in your normal way of life from which you intend to extract some good for yourself and others , keeping active , keeping your eyes on the world beyond the bars , and planning and preparing yourself for your ultimate return to it . |