Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] myself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That being so , ‘ I must immerse myself in the atmosphere of my homeland . ’ |
| 2 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 3 | I must content myself with the last verse of a hymn in honour of St Bartholomew : |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll hang myself from the bars under the light , ’ she said , desperate to sound convincing . |
| 5 | I 'll cheat myself of the patterns that a beast can register , with its robot-wired mind alert to supernatural vibrations . |
| 6 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 7 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 8 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Sometimes at night I 'd find myself beyond the souks in narrow lanes between windowless houses . |
| 10 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 11 | Anytime after nine o'clock on the Friday evening I would lock myself into the office with typewriter , plenty of paper and a full bottle of Teacher 's Highland Cream . |
| 12 | In arguing this I shall limit myself to the internal characteristics of the National Curriculum . |
| 13 | 1 shall limit myself in the rest of this chapter to the most interesting and influential of these theories , those of Ransom and the other Southern critics Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate , and those of W.K. Wimsatt and his collaborator the philosopher Monroe Beardsley ; all of these writers were active mainly in the forties and fifties . |
| 14 | Yet there are also brief moments of recovery , moments of gratified desire and a coming to life : ‘ on this abandoned divan , I shall inhale for a long while still the earthy , vegetal smell which the faun left behind ; then , in the morning , wakened at dawn , I shall fling myself into the delicious air ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 15 | I shall not have to concern myself with the interview of [ W ] but I shall concern myself with the interviews of [ the co-accused ] . ’ |
| 16 | I would declare myself in the waiting-room of a railway station if it were necessary ) , he said that I was humiliating him . |
| 17 | A fuller description of this can be found in the paperback edition of A Presumption of Innocence , so here I will confine myself to the main points . |
| 18 | As a consequence , I will confine myself to the facts as I understand them . |
| 19 | Almost every line of this surprisingly underrated poem is relevant to the subject in hand , but I will limit myself to the following short extract : |