Example sentences of "[vb past] yourself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva was jubilant , thinking , see how you limited yourself when you did not think positively . |
| 2 | If you hire an exhibition space or organise an exhibition in your own home or a commercial or other space made available to you without charge , you will obviously be meeting all the costs involved yourself . |
| 3 | You stroked yourself off in front of me . |
| 4 | In the fight against obesity you have , no doubt , often regarded yourself as your own worst enemy . |
| 5 | Having clarified your objectives , and provided yourself with the necessary resources , make a start . |
| 6 | Er and you , you , you provided yourself with the uniform before you came as a student nurse so that was alright for the first year , so you 'd no uniform to provide . |
| 7 | The philosophy of ‘ isms ’ has been degraded here , but when we last spoke you described yourself as an ‘ independent socialist ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Kenton , if you are under the impression you have already at your age perfected yourself , you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of . |
| 9 | What do you honestly feel about ladies over the age of forty appearing nude in centrefolds such as Playboy , and if approached yourself , with the body you have today — which is marvellous — would you do it ? |
| 10 | Funny , the kind of things you found yourself saying sometimes . |
| 11 | but you never found yourself |
| 12 | Q. You found yourself somewhat surprised to be in this sort of environment ? |
| 13 | It may look easy from the safety of the burn 's heathery banks , but you would be wringing out your underpants if you found yourself clinging to near-vertical rock at the crest of the ridge by pursuing such a daft route . |
| 14 | Have you been at a party where you found yourself in a room and people started skinning up ? |
| 15 | ‘ And found yourself confronting two different forms of menace , the power station and the Whistler . ’ |
| 16 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 17 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 18 | Your mood went down and you found yourself avoiding meeting friends and playing golf … . |
| 19 | But they would say to him Angus , is n't it about time you found yourself a wife ? |
| 20 | ‘ As you read the story you found yourself punching up shots in your mind , and you got a strong set of pictures forming which you could then draw down . |
| 21 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 22 | As Bec said , you found yourself encountering something amusing or interesting during your day which you stored up to tell . |
| 23 | Have you ever started to speak and found yourself having to stop and take short breaths just to get through a sentence ? |
| 24 | You would think that they were — thankfully — drawing to a close , and then they would burst off again for another hour and you found yourself wishing they would just shut up . |
| 25 | Then she said , ‘ If you were a good-looking chap who wore Armani suits and washed-silk shirts and things , and you found yourself sitting across from a girl with freckles and a ponytail — or at least , a girl who used to have freckles and a ponytail — and you realized she 'd grown up to be gorgeous , would you go for her ? ’ |
| 26 | When she laughed and giggled it stretched from ear to ear , but half an hour after leaving her you found yourself remembering Harvey 's claim that she was the most beautiful girl in the world . |
| 27 | Ever found yourself ‘ dying for a cuppa ’ ? |
| 28 | So you actually found yourself not trusting what was going on . |
| 29 | ‘ So you found yourself out of work . |
| 30 | ‘ Found yourself a girl , ‘ ave you ? |