Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] myself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 2 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 3 | When I finish playing , I hope to follow Mick Channon into racing but before that happens I have to prove myself in the Premier League . |
| 4 | I have permitted myself throughout the useful abbreviation ‘ iff ’ for ‘ if and only if ’ . |
| 5 | There are loos close at hand which makes a nice change from the back of a bush ; so far I have behaved myself in the boat ! |