Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] myself [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine .
2 For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy …
3 I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express .
4 By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime .
5 Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth .
6 I had to force myself up the path to his front door .
7 I had to force myself down the street to his house .
8 I had got myself in a very foolish position .
9 I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed .
10 By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground .
11 I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced .
12 Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen .
13 Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald .
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