Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] myself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'VE committed myself to one of the most dubious business deals of the year by investing £25 in a square yard of Doncaster Rovers ' football pitch . |
| 2 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 3 | ‘ I have distanced myself for long periods , ’ he said , perhaps with a tinge of regret about teaching posts in Cumberland and Scarborough which took him away from Cleveland . |
| 4 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 5 | The proof of this statement is so simple and elegant that it is the one piece of mathematics I have permitted myself in this book . |
| 6 | Since January 1991 I have committed myself to full time study of the language , history and culture etc and have made a further four visits . |
| 7 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 8 | I have familiarised myself with some of the feminist writers on art , women , and power — Linda Nochlin , Whitney Chadwick , Griselda Pollock . |