Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 2 | And I mean I su everyone has to resign themselves I think to some extent but the fact that they are playing a role within their work situation . |
| 3 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 4 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 5 | Assuming you do n't , I mean make yourself sneeze , and you do n't |
| 6 | By this I mean flinging yourself forward on to the opponent 's fist with your unguarded face . |
| 7 | I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I intend to give myself a reward , ’ Merrill said , going over to his window and closing it . |
| 9 | I failed to get myself introduced the other night . |
| 10 | ‘ I got to sort myself out , see . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I HATE to repeat myself but I 'm a very boring repetitive guy when you get to know me . ’ |
| 12 | We all have the right to change our mind … and that 's why I hate committing myself in print about these personal things . |
| 13 | I never stopped loving you , either … however hard I tried to fool myself that I had … ’ |
| 14 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 15 | I tried to tell myself I loved her and when that did no good I tried telling myself I hated her . |
| 16 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 17 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 18 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 19 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 20 | I tried to kill myself twice in the space of ten days , |
| 21 | I tried to remind myself who I am and how I play tennis . ’ |
| 22 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |
| 23 | I tried to pull myself out but my foot was caught in some branches and the current squashed the canoe hard up against me , allowing me no movement . |
| 24 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 25 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
| 26 | No matter how hard I tried to steel myself , you just became more and more persuasive . |
| 27 | I tried to knock myself out with some cider I 'd bought , then I swallowed a bottle of weedkiller and started to walk towards the lake . |
| 28 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 29 | But I realized I 'd said it so I tried to dig myself out the hole |
| 30 | I tried to kid myself that someone took her and dragged her there , you know the scenario . |