Example sentences of "i be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am devoting myself to this mystery because i want to be a man . ’ |
| 2 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 3 | The corner shop comes into view , with JJ 's ugly mug peering round it , and jerking back at the sight of me , and I am killing myself with laughter inside as Miss Plum and I walk right past , together . |
| 4 | ‘ I am opening myself to new possibilities . ’ |
| 5 | I am opening myself as a channel to the Light . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought 14 years was a fair spell but I felt a bit sad and it will be hard to let go but I am preparing myself for that . |
| 7 | The thought pleases me but what they think is irrelevant really ; it 's Marcus that I 'm saving myself for . |
| 8 | I know you did n't want to marry me , but ‘ t is not as though I 'm forcing myself on you ! ’ |
| 9 | I 'm preparing myself for the next life . |
| 10 | If I 'm punishing myself for my religious beliefs , I 've damn well got a right to punish you too . |
| 11 | It has so much depth , much more than if I were to express myself in other languages . |
| 12 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 13 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
| 14 | I were killing myself with laughter ! |
| 15 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
| 16 | I was promising myself to be very quiet , whatever it would be . |
| 17 | I was kidding myself for such a long time I began to ignore the risks . |
| 18 | We had all heard rumours about the Legion 's paras , and I was holding myself to my vow made in the bathroom in Wales nearly ten years before . |
| 19 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 20 | I was here in the city all the time ; watching its every move while it — and you — thought I was disporting myself in sunnier climes . ’ |
| 21 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 22 | Always I was comparing myself to others , watching other husbands , fathers and sons and invariably finding myself wanting . |
| 23 | I was congratulating myself on my fitness when I passed a middle-aged German couple climbing up — with a good deal more spring in their steps than me . |
| 24 | There I was congratulating myself on surviving the winter without so much as a sniffle , when I was suddenly struck down without warning . |
| 25 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 26 | Instead I was getting myself into an increasingly confrontational situation , a battle of wills , with the Director of Coaching . |
| 27 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 28 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 29 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 30 | I was committing myself to a policy . ’ |