Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] myself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 2 | I ca n't think of a time when I would be going by myself in the near future . |
| 3 | I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger . |
| 4 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 5 | It was at this period that I began to think about myself in the third person : Elizabeth is compassionate and considerate , she thinks how other people might feel . |
| 6 | Soon I shall start snarling at visitors and grubbing for nourishment in the fields , simply because I can not bear to think of myself in the same category as Betty , and she has laid claim to humanity . |
| 7 | This awful pain eating away at me is simply anger at myself for the stupid situation I 'm in now . |