Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 2 | I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence . |
| 3 | We all have the right to change our mind … and that 's why I hate committing myself in print about these personal things . |
| 4 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 5 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 6 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 8 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 9 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 10 | ‘ No disrespect to you , Marge , but I want to save myself for when I get married . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 12 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 13 | ‘ I must n't tell you that I want to bury myself in your body ? ’ he enquired . |
| 14 | I feel frustrated rather than embarrassed , because I want to prove myself to Celtic fans . |
| 15 | But that Terry of yours has put himself beyond it . |
| 16 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 17 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |
| 18 | ‘ There was no reason to tell you of my proposal until I 'd assured myself of his agreement to it . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 20 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 21 | I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with . |
| 22 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 23 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd told myself for weeks that our wedding night would be such a moving experience for both of us that you 'd suddenly realise you were in love with me , and tell me , and everything would end happily ever after . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 26 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 27 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 29 | Recognizing all this , and being shown too where the power lies in this social order , the politics of inversion become persuasive , perhaps irresistible ; this is Moll , about to thrash the predatory Laxton : ‘ I scorn to prostitute myself to a man , /that can prostitute a man to me ’ ( iii . |
| 30 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |