Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] myself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated ! |
2 | I did not think of myself as a racist but my experience of working in Ghana was making me irritable and critical , the first step on the way to making racist judgments . |
3 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I 've always thought of myself as a sensible person , yet I allowed myself to do that . |
6 | I look on myself as a fun golfer I go off with my mates on golfing weekends and have taken my clubs to Spain , Tunisia , Portugal and the USA . |
7 | I 'm not a great rhythm player , I do n't look at myself as a great chops dude and arranging is definitely not my forte . |
8 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
9 | I ca n't think of a time when I would be going by myself in the near future . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I should now clarify that statement by rephrasing it : I adopted the only strategy open to me in order to preserve any sort of identity , however precarious , and in order to believe in myself as an individual being , separate from both the family and the school . |
12 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
13 | With setts that I watch regularly , I usually talk to myself in a low , quiet voice as I arrive and just before I leave . |
14 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ I think of myself as a social worker ’ , he says , in the first of a new series of Inside Story : Immoral Earnings ( BBC1 , 9.30pm ) . |
17 | ‘ It 's no good — I just ca n't seem to think of myself as a European yob ’ |
18 | ‘ I prefer to think of myself as an avenging angel , ’ he returned smoothly . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | So I wandered bizarrely , often with that feeling of standing outside myself as a separate and dispassionate watcher , that I had experienced the day the malais had invaded Danu but this time without the terror . |
21 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
22 | This awful pain eating away at me is simply anger at myself for the stupid situation I 'm in now . |
23 | I said to myself with a secret smile . ) |