Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pn reflx] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made myself a nice profit out of it . |
| 2 | A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island . |
| 3 | I got myself a larger size and even they seemed to be pretty neat . |
| 4 | So , impressed by him , I got myself a bass guitar . |
| 5 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 6 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 7 | One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video . |
| 8 | I poured myself a huge whisky . |
| 9 | I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down . |
| 10 | I allowed myself a brief glance at Alison 's ample contours . |
| 11 | Consequentially , when I saw him marching swiftly towards me I permitted myself a brief groan . |
| 12 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 13 | Many years ago I knitted myself a sleeveless jumper in mercerised cotton ; this stretched in the wash until it was more like a mini-dress . |
| 14 | Soon after taking up my job as cub reporter I bought myself a big radio and a gramophone and continued collecting recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan and classical music . |
| 15 | Distracted from my course in self-improvement , I mixed myself a brutal martini and fell to pondering such juxtapositions . |