Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I intend to give myself a reward , ’ Merrill said , going over to his window and closing it . |
| 2 | First of all , I want to defend myself a little against the charge of being the most intelligent man in the world . |
| 3 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 4 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 5 | But it was when I came to ask myself the reason for such a wild suggestion that I received a greater shock . |
| 6 | ‘ And then I began to ask myself the questions all over again . |
| 7 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 8 | I will try to enjoy the whole weekend and with everyone 's help I have set myself a target to raise 1,000 for CLIC . |
| 9 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
| 11 | So I decided to make myself a boat . |
| 12 | There were some hills around me , so I decided to build myself a little house on one of them . |
| 13 | I have always done my own dressmaking and last year , with a growing interest in knitting , I decided to buy myself a machine . |
| 14 | I keep promising myself every year that I will go to the Christmas Market in Nuremberg , but I never get around to it . |
| 15 | Life in the rainforest is brutish and short , and most of the Kayan people I spoke to consider themselves a good deal better off than their forefathers — thanks to the logging . |
| 16 | In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it . |
| 17 | I did allow myself a Metastim tablet from my belt pouch , but even its effect was minimal , and temporary . |
| 18 | I had taught myself the basics but learning the ‘ wrinkles ’ from someone more experienced saves time and increased the ‘ professional ’ look of garments . |
| 19 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 20 | I had fancied myself a connoisseur of contrast , a gourmet savouring the sweet-and-sour clash between my present lifestyle and the one I had left behind me in East Oxford . |
| 21 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 22 | I had proved myself the fittest by the mere act of survival . |
| 23 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 24 | I had earned myself a little more time to think . |
| 25 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 26 | I had found myself a champion ! |
| 27 | Well we kept on like that and er er people like that we were packing up wholesale so erm I 've lost myself a little bit now . |
| 28 | Christ all bloody mighty , she was thinking , I 've landed myself a good one here ! |
| 29 | And I 've done myself a on that reckoning , because until we 've got that sorted anyway . |
| 30 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |