Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ? |
| 2 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 3 | I made myself some medicine , some er honey , glycerine and apple cider vinegar . |
| 4 | I made myself another coffee , extended myself on the sofa — my legs quivery with fatigue — opened the folder , pulled out the sheets of paper and started to read . |
| 5 | I really have to watch how far I push myself these days , though . |
| 6 | so yesterday when I went I got myself another drape |
| 7 | I tried myself this morning , in case you were fit enough to go home , but still no answer . ’ |
| 8 | I found myself second curate in a large mission called Kibuye on the outskirts of Kisumu town . |
| 9 | After he became Prime Minister , I found myself comforting Harold Wilson on a number of occasions . |
| 10 | I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap . |
| 11 | I must do the watering carefully , I told myself each day — not make a mess . |
| 12 | So , I write , as well as this diary , some of my new novel ( a killer , this one , dealing as it does with post-Holocaust survivors ' guilt ; why do I set myself these agonies ? ) and start pinch-hitting for Gloria Hunniford on Radio Two . |
| 13 | I tell myself that silence is more likely to be a personal choice than an imposed one . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Fraid I disgraced myself last night . |
| 15 | I fetch myself another gin while I 'm up and pour a bit in Mum 's tea while I 'm about it . |
| 16 | But I ask myself one question : what should be the reparation for having been removed from life for 18 years , with my brothers ? |
| 17 | Rereading More Women than Men , I ask myself each time whether the relations between them are suggested with extreme subtlety , or whether something is lacking . |
| 18 | No , erm , well it 's , it 's not just , they did n't have , it was n't too much , there 's one ear piece which has come off , but I discovered at , my last , I sent myself last week at the assembly hall to how that could happen |
| 19 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 20 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 21 | I bought myself three copies of music and Malc and I trotted off to Chapeltown Working Men 's Club where a local agent , Ernest ‘ Honest ’ Johns , held weekly auditions . |
| 22 | With the greatest of reluctance , I decided that it was time I bought myself another detector . |
| 23 | One might speculate , as I did myself several years ago ( Widdowson 1979 : Paper 15 ) , that it is because the learner draws variably on his interim competence according to the situational demands made upon it ; that his interlanguage , in other words , contains variable rules as well as invariant categorial ones and in this respect resembles fully fledged languages ( see Ellis 1985 , Chapter 4 ) . |
| 24 | The demand of an ever more literate population for books , pamphlets and magazines on parenthood is met by a stream of material which surpasses itself each year , not only in volume , but in the seductive , indeed sumptuous , way in which it is produced . |
| 25 | Her movements brisk and purposeful , she made herself some lunch , and actually forced herself to eat it . |
| 26 | Sneaking across the kitchen she made herself some bread and margarine . |
| 27 | The next morning , without seeing any of the family , who were heaven knew where , she made herself some breakfast under the smiling gaze of Rose or Mary — she did n't know which — and before she could get into a worry as to whether Feargal had meant his offer to take her to Carlingford he walked in through the back door . |
| 28 | The chicken was delicious , and Lisa was feeling revitalised as she made herself some coffee and settled down to work . |
| 29 | Unable to face the thought of food , she made herself some tea . |
| 30 | She made herself some tea , hunted for headache tablets and slumped down into a chair . |