Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When I 'd convinced myself that girl whose hand
2 ‘ I could have saved myself that fee . ’
3 How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door .
4 I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water .
5 Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him .
6 He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge .
7 Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion .
8 The answer was the same as on every previous occasion she had asked herself that question .
9 I 've asked myself that question time and again .
10 I 've asked myself that time and time again .
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