Example sentences of "i was [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
| 2 | I was promising myself to be very quiet , whatever it would be . |
| 3 | I was kidding myself for such a long time I began to ignore the risks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 8 | Always I was comparing myself to others , watching other husbands , fathers and sons and invariably finding myself wanting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There I was congratulating myself on surviving the winter without so much as a sniffle , when I was suddenly struck down without warning . |
| 11 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 12 | Instead I was getting myself into an increasingly confrontational situation , a battle of wills , with the Director of Coaching . |
| 13 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | '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 . |
| 16 | I was committing myself to a policy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My dear little castaway , ’ he drawled , ‘ surely you did n't imagine I was offering myself as companion for the night ? |