Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming you do n't , I mean make yourself sneeze , and you do n't |
| 2 | By this I mean flinging yourself forward on to the opponent 's fist with your unguarded face . |
| 3 | I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I intend to give myself a reward , ’ Merrill said , going over to his window and closing it . |
| 5 | ‘ I HATE to repeat myself but I 'm a very boring repetitive guy when you get to know me . ’ |
| 6 | We all have the right to change our mind … and that 's why I hate committing myself in print about these personal things . |
| 7 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Above all , I want to enjoy myself , ’ Hill added . |
| 9 | ‘ No disrespect to you , Marge , but I want to save myself for when I get married . ’ |
| 10 | I want to ease myself back in between now and Christmas . ’ |
| 11 | I want to move myself . |
| 12 | I want to move myself right out of this restaurant . ’ |
| 13 | First of all , I want to defend myself a little against the charge of being the most intelligent man in the world . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But I want to satisfy myself that all 's well . |
| 16 | ‘ I must n't say that I want to feel myself deep inside you ? |
| 17 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 18 | ‘ I must n't tell you that I want to bury myself in your body ? ’ he enquired . |
| 19 | Having said that , I 've always known that if I want to express myself I have to have a large vocabulary on the guitar . |
| 20 | I feel frustrated rather than embarrassed , because I want to prove myself to Celtic fans . |
| 21 | Recognizing all this , and being shown too where the power lies in this social order , the politics of inversion become persuasive , perhaps irresistible ; this is Moll , about to thrash the predatory Laxton : ‘ I scorn to prostitute myself to a man , /that can prostitute a man to me ’ ( iii . |
| 22 | New Zealand I hope to visit myself probably on my way home as we come round the Horn and thereby circumnavigate the globe ! ! ! |
| 23 | All in all I begin to enjoy myself . |
| 24 | When I 'm being beastly to him , he has such a way of looking sorry for himself that I begin to hate myself . |
| 25 | Erm , I seem to find myself in this committee in a minority of one . |
| 26 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 27 | I like to amuse myself . ’ |
| 28 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 29 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 30 | ‘ I like to involve myself in everything . |