Example sentences of "[prep] myself [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 2 | ‘ I am twenty-four , independent , I have my own flat , my own business , and I think I can take care of myself for a couple of weeks on a small , friendly Mediterranean island , thanks very much ! |
| 3 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 4 | I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children . |
| 5 | OFTEN I ‘ ve thought of myself as a state ; a country or , at the very least , a city . |
| 6 | I think of myself as a boy . |
| 7 | My own sense of myself as a person directly conflicted with the kind of girl who was sung about in pop songs … . |
| 8 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 9 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 10 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 11 | In this passage Hegel is asking the question : How do I become aware of myself as a self ? |
| 12 | So , I have pictures of myself as a boss , a father , a spouse , a friend , etc . |
| 13 | I read The Second Sex and A Room of One 's Own at the same age , and thought of myself as a feminist , although this had to remain a privately held conviction for several years more . |
| 14 | I only think of myself as a housewife when I have to fill up a form . |
| 15 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 16 | I do think of myself as a housewife . |
| 17 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 18 | I wanted to go to the Yorkshire Moors or the Lake District : I had romantic visions of myself as a drystone waller , indomitable against the elements . |
| 19 | Take BIS Beecom International , founded in the mid-1970s by Paul McWilliams , a quietly spoken computer boffin ( ‘ I like to think of myself as a guru ’ ) . |
| 20 | I do n't really think of myself as a mother . |
| 21 | At puberty I started thinking of myself as a hijra . |
| 22 | ‘ I was proud of myself as a soldier , ’ said Loy Im , a 32-year-old former Khmer Rouge commander who had deserted to rejoin his family after 17 years in the jungle . |
| 23 | I was beginning to think of myself as an athlete , though not a very serious one . |
| 24 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 25 | At the beginning I think I loved her ; I certainly poured vast amounts of myself into the relationship . |
| 26 | I caught sight of myself in the peeling mirror : long thin legs , blue from the cold , clashing with the bright pink mini-dress which began at my neck and finished at my knickers . |
| 27 | I caught sight of myself in the peeling mirror : long thin legs , blue from the cold clashing with the bright pink mini-dress which began at my neck and finished at my knicker legs … |
| 28 | I caught sight of myself in the mirror . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 30 | I was never proud of myself after a fight . |