Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 2 | Ann de Stratford ( Mrs Seed ) echoes this sentiment : ‘ I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have a very happy marriage to someone who has never considered me as anything but an equal . |
| 3 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 4 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 5 | I was n't completely heart-free during those years ; sometimes I allowed myself to be fooled that I loved someone , but when it came to the point of saying " yes " to anything final there was always the small honest inner voice which jeered " For life ? |
| 6 | ‘ I allowed myself to be talked into riding a horse by a stuntman , ’ she says . |
| 7 | I knew that the Cross would drag me to Cambridge if I allowed myself to be dragged , but I refused . |
| 8 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
| 9 | ‘ As I know myself to be entirely English … ’ she told Parliament in March 1702 , three days after her accession , ‘ there is not one thing you can expect or desire of me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness or prosperity of England . ’ |
| 10 | It heals us of depression and sadness , as if they were intrinsic to the kind of person I believe myself to be . |
| 11 | And for a person in a somewhat delicate emotional condition , as I believe myself to be , this is hard to contemplate . |
| 12 | I felt myself to be a source of pollution , and grew to dread my period , especially as I never knew exactly when it was going to come . |
| 13 | Both physically and emotionally I felt myself to be younger than ( inferior to ) my two younger sisters . |
| 14 | My diary , in my pre-anorexic days , often refers to a ‘ weight of depression ’ which I felt myself to be carrying around . |
| 15 | The first cone was melted to a puddle , the second was bending in obeisance to the blaze — as I felt myself to be , stooped there before the kiln , wanting to gaze and gaze , but the vision was barely supportable . |
| 16 | I knew myself to be , for those few hours , Queen of his heart . |
| 17 | I knew myself to be stupid , but I sometimes felt that I was n't alone , and that stupidity was a condition which age did not ease . |
| 18 | Now I knew myself to be bad in a bad world , a vessel of poison afloat in a sea of poison , and I thought that this was all there was to know . |
| 19 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |
| 20 | ‘ Why do I allow myself to be persuaded by this unscrupulous Welsh Levantine ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | I forced myself to be optimistic . |
| 22 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 23 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 24 | Rather it should be : ‘ How can I help myself to be as little ‘ like that ’ ’ as much of the time as possible ? ’ |
| 25 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 26 | A minority which believed itself to be persecuted might well stick together . |
| 27 | A government which allowed itself to be perceived as anti-car would clearly be running a risk . |
| 28 | The way in which Germanisation was carried out gave to the newly released serfs , the put-upon peasantry , the tiny Polish middle class which felt itself to be discriminated against , and the ambitious and inflexible Polish nobility a rallying point — probably their only rallying point . |
| 29 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 30 | Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed . |