Example sentences of "i [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray . |
2 | I made myself a nice profit out of it . |
3 | A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island . |
4 | I got myself a larger size and even they seemed to be pretty neat . |
5 | So , impressed by him , I got myself a bass guitar . |
6 | ‘ I got myself a few commissions — did I tell you I was thinking of going freelance ? ’ |
7 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video . |
10 | I poured myself a huge whisky . |
11 | I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down . |
12 | I allowed myself a brief glance at Alison 's ample contours . |
13 | Choir night , so I get myself an early supper . |
14 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
15 | Consequentially , when I saw him marching swiftly towards me I permitted myself a brief groan . |
16 | I find myself the only thing is to change the subject . |
17 | When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me . |
18 | Late that night I ask myself the age-old question . |
19 | It is the most beautiful thing you will ever wear — until I surpass myself the next time ! ’ |
20 | ‘ It is beautiful , ’ she said coyly , ‘ it is the most beautiful dress I will ever wear , until I surpass myself the next time . ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
25 | Distracted from my course in self-improvement , I mixed myself a brutal martini and fell to pondering such juxtapositions . |
26 | Nevertheless one can hardly hope to discuss knowledge in a language any less metaphorical than Descartes ' ( I have myself a few paragraphs back analogized not only to seeing but to ‘ glimpsing ’ and being ‘ illuminated ’ by a ‘ flash ’ , not only to clarity but to drawing a ‘ clear line ’ ) . |