Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] myself [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray . |
2 | I made myself a nice profit out of it . |
3 | A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island . |
4 | I got myself a larger size and even they seemed to be pretty neat . |
5 | So , impressed by him , I got myself a bass guitar . |
6 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
7 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
8 | One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video . |
9 | I poured myself a huge whisky . |
10 | I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down . |
11 | I allowed myself a brief glance at Alison 's ample contours . |
12 | Consequentially , when I saw him marching swiftly towards me I permitted myself a brief groan . |
13 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
14 | Many years ago I knitted myself a sleeveless jumper in mercerised cotton ; this stretched in the wash until it was more like a mini-dress . |
15 | Soon after taking up my job as cub reporter I bought myself a big radio and a gramophone and continued collecting recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan and classical music . |
16 | Distracted from my course in self-improvement , I mixed myself a brutal martini and fell to pondering such juxtapositions . |