Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I feel that I 've given myself to somebody who thinks my heart is a pretty flower . |
| 2 | I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with . |
| 3 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 4 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 5 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 6 | I probably did n't help my cause by being so self-conscious about the whole exercise that I decided to station myself behind a bush . |
| 7 | ‘ I must n't tell you that I want to bury myself in your body ? ’ he enquired . |
| 8 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 9 | ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ? |
| 10 | The predictions that I have concerned myself with are rather more critical . |
| 11 | It is for this reason that I have confined myself to novels concerned with the period before 1914 . |
| 12 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |
| 13 | In front of the fire she kept a dark tab rug that she had made herself from scraps of different-coloured material . |
| 14 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 15 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 16 | Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space . |
| 17 | Edging away from him , she felt her legs collide with the low shelving , and realised with a jolting shock that she had backed herself into a corner . |
| 18 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 19 | As his palm cupped their heaviness , almost possessively , squeezing , caressing , make her blood leap , Lisa was suddenly overcome by a longing so intense that she had to restrain herself from falling on her knees and begging him to make love to her right there on the beach . |
| 20 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 21 | It amazed her that she 'd ever believed herself in love with him , that she 'd deluded herself into seeing his arrogance and his egotism as positive qualities . |
| 22 | And you 've filled in your UCCA form making sure that you 've put yourself across properly . |
| 23 | The only thing they really lacked was that extra bit of meanness that you need to impose yourself on a game . ’ |
| 24 | Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation . |
| 25 | What a comment on our society , that we need to organise ourselves against vandalism and theft ! |
| 26 | ‘ We must get back to the high standards of self-discipline that we have set ourselves in the past , ’ said Cooke . |
| 27 | The observant reader will have noticed that we have helped ourselves to the content of the features proposed by Hymes and the co-ordinates proposed by Lewis in a fairly arbitrary way . |
| 28 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 29 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 30 | It is important that we continue to put ourselves into all sorts of learning situations so that we recognise what we need to do or stop doing with our pupils . |