Example sentences of "bring myself [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the village people could help me , and I could not bring myself to beg for food , although by now I felt weak and faint . |
| 2 | I feel that because I ca n't bring myself to talk about it , but on the other hand I ca n't forget it , I joke instead about hating my body , or hating being a girl , or hating men , then I get drunk and cry . |
| 3 | Look , I know it 's asking a lot , but I ca n't bring myself to go through Billy 's things . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there are certainly some Conservatives I could not bring myself to vote for — such as Mr Jack Aspinwall in my neighbouring seat of Wansdyke , who a few years ago was one of an all-party group of MPs who spoke far too warmly about the Ceausescu regime on a visit to Romania , and who lists as his only publication Kindly Sit Down ! , a collection of ‘ after-dinner stories from both Houses of Parliament ’ . |
| 5 | One day I know I wo n't have room for everything but for the moment I wo n't bring myself to part with something I have found , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I could n't bring myself to look at Mavis , with her neat grey bun and demure brooch linking the lapels of her Peter Pan collar . |
| 7 | It would probably read very stale now , if I could bring myself to look at it . |
| 8 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 9 | yeah , him , I ca n't even bring myself to speak to him . |
| 10 | But three years ago — oh blackest day , I ca n't even now bring myself to speak of it — a fall , an injury . |
| 11 | ‘ But those do n't apply to us as they imply a sharing that 's total , and there 's only one area of my life that I can bring myself to share with you . ’ |