Example sentences of "myself with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smiled , mopped my face , and sat on a rock to toast myself with two pints of chlorinated water . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I concern myself with general policy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My milk did n't seem to be coming through so I was told to stuff myself with rich food and carbohydrates . |
| 6 | Oh to get away so I could exhaust myself with intense experiences , where everyone spoke of intense subjects and never said " pass the bread and butter . " |
| 7 | I passed a church on the way and really believe I would have gone in to sprinkle myself with holy water — but it was locked , as churches are , these days , against vandals . |
| 8 | He had me smashing my helmet against the car 's supporting struts on every corner and bracing myself with both legs against the bulkhead at every braking point . |
| 9 | I astonished myself with this realization . |
| 10 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 11 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 12 | I was beside myself with wild imaginings . |