Example sentences of "myself [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 2 | I tried to inspect it myself the other day . |
| 3 | Did it myself the other day . |
| 4 | When I visited Bishopshalt school with my hon. Friend , I saw for myself the superb improvement in equipment and facilities that it has managed to achieve only shortly after attaining grant-maintained status . |
| 5 | Late that night I ask myself the age-old question . |
| 6 | I ca n't give myself the great happiness of promising to be yours — because I am sure I ought not to ! ’ |
| 7 | stopping myself the only way I could — |
| 8 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
| 9 | So , on some sites you might say , no , I , well I can control the labour costs and I can control the er , plant usage , but I do n't buy the materials myself the only way I can affect them is by altering the wastage . |
| 10 | I find myself the only thing is to change the subject . |
| 11 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 12 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 13 | I thought that perhaps I would sooner have swum in the pool with the crocodiles than draw to myself the hostile attention of that girl . |
| 14 | summer , giving myself the immeasurable luxury of being able to start early from the hotel , still burping porridge and bacon , and return to a hot dinner , a steaming bath and a cosy bar full of fellow hill-walkers . |
| 15 | One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video . |
| 16 | The team will be headed by me , Lorna Fewtrell ( Shipman in the previous article , just in case you 're wondering ) , myself a keen canoeist . |
| 17 | I do n't think he meant me harm , but somehow I hit the corner of the wardrobe and got myself a black eye and one or two other bruises … ’ |
| 18 | Then I had to save up and buy myself a black dress for the afternoons when the housemaid was out , you see . |
| 19 | There were a few people around , but I did n't care , I stripped down to my bra and filled the basin and gave myself a real good wash . |
| 20 | She was thinking this so hard that she was not surprised when he stood up and said , " I 'm going to drop around to Felicity 's and get myself a real bath . " |
| 21 | ‘ I want to keep playing well , and if I ca n't make the team then I want to be in a position to give myself a real chance in America in two years time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 23 | Clearly there can be no reason why one should not be a feminist and a religious person , in the sense in which I am myself a religious person . |
| 24 | So I thought well if I can sort of get think to myself a rough idea before I go Jonathan 's going to Geoff 's mums cos Geoff 's got ta work all day Saturday you see ? |
| 25 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 26 | Many years ago I knitted myself a sleeveless jumper in mercerised cotton ; this stretched in the wash until it was more like a mini-dress . |
| 27 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 28 | Christ all bloody mighty , she was thinking , I 've landed myself a good one here ! |
| 29 | To find myself a Good Career to Travel and |
| 30 | Following it for a while is like giving myself a good spring clean . ’ |