Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pn reflx] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 2 | I hauled myself to the top of the wall , looking back as I prepared to jump . |
| 3 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 4 | In the course of the paper I addressed myself to the question : ‘ Why is it that people unhesitatingly talk of feeling hot as well as of feeling the heat of things ? ’ |
| 5 | I accustomed myself to the mephitic stench . |
| 6 | In this free and easy style , I accustomed myself to the rhythms of school life . |
| 7 | ‘ One day , if I write my memoirs — the only thing I shall write well , if ever I put myself to the task of doing it — you will find a place in them , and what a place ! |
| 8 | While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital . |
| 9 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 10 | At 16 , I resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never really be thin ’ |
| 11 | A feeling of terror mounted in me , and I dragged myself to the telephone and rang Émile . |
| 12 | I gorged myself to the gills although Benjamin ordered me to be temperate with the wine . |