Example sentences of "myself [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are still too young and I shall save myself that delight , ’ he had added . |
| 2 | I do n't think I scare easily , but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend . |
| 3 | Oh God , what have I let myself in for , I said to myself that night . |
| 4 | When I 'd convinced myself that girl whose hand |
| 5 | I 've asked myself that question time and again . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look . |
| 8 | I do n't think of myself that way of course , but I enjoy all the attention . |
| 9 | I tell myself that silence is more likely to be a personal choice than an imposed one . ’ |
| 10 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 11 | ‘ I could have saved myself that fee . ’ |
| 12 | I must remind myself that fear and my submission to it is a statement of disbelief . |
| 13 | I 've asked myself that time and time again . |
| 14 | But there 's never been the reason to allow myself that luxury . |
| 15 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 16 | Yet I did not know which to trust : the splintered yet separately concrete vision of myself each man offered me which was the product of his necessary fantasy ; or the amorphous , difficult to establish whole self which struggled to say that his vision of me and mine through his , had distorted it . |
| 17 | I must do the watering carefully , I told myself each day — not make a mess . |
| 18 | dressing myself each morning . |
| 19 | I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fact is , comin' here from the fence I fuckin' near shit myself each time you stopped . |
| 22 | I have asked myself this question a thousand times , a hundred thousand times . |
| 23 | I shall be driving back to Prague myself this afternoon . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I even managed to drive my mother 's car all the way out here by myself this evening ! ’ |
| 25 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 26 | I tried myself this morning , in case you were fit enough to go home , but still no answer . ’ |
| 27 | I used it myself this morning . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not myself this morning . |
| 29 | I will therefore restrict myself this morning to highlighting a few of the issues that will be covered in more detail in that report . |
| 30 | I , I really jiggered myself this morning and I was only out about half an hour , you know , and I used to be able to do a full day ! |