Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 2 | In the middle of a still most active social life I am being drawn into an absolute solitude in which I can not even entertain myself with the motions of the teleonomic mechanisms on stage or screen , and making love is equivalent to copulating with a perfectly lifelike mechanical doll . |
| 3 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm beginning to know exactly how they feel , ’ Lindsey smiled , ‘ and I 've always rather prided myself on having a pretty good sense of direction . ’ |
| 5 | We had this balcony and I used to sit out there sunning myself with no clothes on . |
| 6 | I left my sack for a third time clipped to Sal and relished the cool caress of wind around my back as I finally found out how to enjoy myself on the steep granite of the ridge . |
| 7 | And because I ca n't just dump myself on complete strangers … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't possibly allow myself to be happy now , because I had an affair/caused a car crash/stole some money/had sex with my brother or sister/ was cruel to my dog/betrayed my best friend — five , ten or twenty years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose it 's true that I have n't really proved myself at Sunderland . |
| 10 | ‘ Besides , I do n't really see myself as a vigneronne . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't very often feel frightened , but then I do n't often put myself in that vulnerable position . |
| 12 | Because my first experience of love was here , I have never wholly transplanted myself from this soil . |
| 13 | I have never really regarded myself as a landscape painter . |
| 14 | And I have certainly never represented myself as the ‘ creator of a radical idea ’ . |