Example sentences of "myself [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We chat , and I mentally award myself thirteen Oscars . |
| 2 | I bought myself three copies of music and Malc and I trotted off to Chapeltown Working Men 's Club where a local agent , Ernest ‘ Honest ’ Johns , held weekly auditions . |
| 3 | ‘ I shall allow myself fifteen minutes to think about her . ’ |
| 4 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 5 | But she was an expert and by watching her I at least gained some confidence , enough to feel I could try it myself one day . |
| 6 | I went in there myself one day for a packet of sunflower seeds for the hamster , and he says to me , I do n't know what I 'm going to do , Mr Epstein , when she comes in here with you over her shoulder . ’ |
| 7 | But I ask myself one question : what should be the reparation for having been removed from life for 18 years , with my brothers ? |
| 8 | I was nearly hit by some myself one night . ’ |
| 9 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 10 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
| 11 | I mean , it 's like the jeans , I say , for Laura I paid fourteen ninety nine for a pair there , and eleven ninety nine for the other pair , well I 've been and got myself two pair cos I mean , it 's more or less all I wear just a , a couple of weeks before , and I 'd only paid twelve ninety nine a pair for my own ! |
| 12 | It took Ron and myself two days to view it , and compulsive viewing most of it was . |
| 13 | I started paying for this myself two years ago — and I want to keep it a secret from him — but now I find I ca n't continue the payments . |
| 14 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 15 | We there 's Don and myself two individuals who have been on the course for incident training with Fire Brigade . |
| 16 | ‘ You know , they remind me of myself thirty years ago when I was a student activist at Oxford , ’ enthused Horsley . |