Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] myself [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
| 2 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 3 | I look upon myself as the kind of producer who is more of a musical supervisor , someone who is responsible for the artistic liaison between the artist and the nature of the finished product . |
| 4 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
| 5 | A few days later , I look at myself in the mirror . |
| 6 | I would look at myself in the mirror , check out the grey hairs , trace the emerging lines and fading lip line and ask myself , ‘ Why ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But at the end of the day , I can look at myself in the mirror and say I gave 100 per cent . |
| 8 | You think I can look at myself in the morning with a damn great blue glass spike in my skull yelling at me , ‘ Hey , you 're a freak ’ ? |
| 9 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 10 | Staring at myself in the mirror . |
| 11 | I flush the lot down the toilet , staring at myself in the mirror , trembling . |
| 12 | I smile at myself in the mirror . |
| 13 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 14 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
| 15 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 16 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 17 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 18 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 19 | I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room . |
| 20 | I looked at myself in the rearview mirror . |
| 21 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 22 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 23 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 24 | The theatre director Schuh was there and he saw me sitting by myself during the interval . |
| 25 | I grin at myself in the mirror . |
| 26 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 27 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
| 28 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 29 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 30 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |