Example sentences of "[vb pp] myself " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cos I 've let myself in for a day of temping . |
| 32 | I was ashamed of what I had let myself in for with Jean-Claude . |
| 33 | Never having foreseen James would suddenly develop a sense of extra-office responsibility for me , I had rather let myself go describing the flat of a rich friend which allayed James 's earlier mild concern about where I was living . |
| 34 | I suppose I had n't let myself think it through — I mean , I was so happy when she said she loved me , I never stopped to think seriously about what I had to offer her . |
| 35 | But I should n't have let myself get near that cringing landlord . |
| 36 | What have I let myself in for here ? |
| 37 | What have I let myself in for ? |
| 38 | I should n't have let myself fall in love with him ! she thought angrily . |
| 39 | Which is why I 'm ringing , ’ Rosemary revealed , and confessed , ‘ I have n't let myself face how lonely I was for the sound of his voice . |
| 40 | I 've ever done , he said and I 'll be totally honest with you he said if I 'd have known how big it was I would n't have done the operation he said I really did n't know what I 've let myself in for , he said he 's had problems with |
| 41 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 42 | There was a moment 's silence and then she went on , ‘ I 've always blamed myself . |
| 43 | ‘ Doctor , ’ I cried , ‘ I 've blamed myself enough . ’ |
| 44 | I had earned myself a little more time to think . |
| 45 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 46 | ‘ I 'm very much up and down but the past few days I 've amazed myself . |
| 47 | For let me tell you something : I 've respected myself far more for doing cleaning jobs well than for doing teaching jobs badly — and it is entirely appropriate that I should do so . |
| 48 | ‘ If someone had rung myself or Walter Jones I could have accepted that , but they did n't . ’ |
| 49 | The predictions that I have concerned myself with are rather more critical . |
| 50 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 51 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 52 | ‘ Perhaps , in setting a trap , I 've caught myself . |
| 53 | But I have also caught myself locking up energy in resentment or guilt or ‘ if onlys ’ . |
| 54 | O'Leary explains : ‘ I am qualified for Ireland through my dad 's nationality , but I 've always considered myself an Essex man because I was born in Harold Wood . ’ |
| 55 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 56 | I had never considered myself as a shy quiet child so drama and acting never bothered me . |
| 57 | I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed . |
| 58 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 59 | Certainly I 'd impressed myself . |
| 60 | ‘ I have fined myself a week 's wages and will be giving the money to charity . ’ |