Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pn reflx] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really have to watch how far I push myself these days , though . |
| 2 | ( ‘ I labour to be brief , I make myself unclear . ’ ) |
| 3 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
| 4 | I see an old , mottled mirror above the fireplace , wherein I make myself comfortable . |
| 5 | But I know that I have done evil , and I hate myself more than you hate me . |
| 6 | ‘ I can at least say that I have been there and I count myself one of the lucky ones . ’ |
| 7 | I count myself fortunate in having met both generations of politicians and scientists . |
| 8 | Such mutual respect , of course , is one of the fundamental elements of high morale , dependability and efficiency , and I count myself fortunate to have been associated with such people for over a quarter of a century . |
| 9 | I count myself fortunate to have known him . |
| 10 | I transfer myself first to the salt-crusted wing-mirror , and then to the polished silver earring dangling from one of the lady 's delicious little lobes . |
| 11 | I give myself one hundred and twenty new panes to varnish round , who says we grows wiser as we grows old . |
| 12 | I give myself two pats on the back for every answer which started with ‘ I do n't know but what if … ’ because these answers show that I regard the investigation as a shared experience . |
| 13 | But however enjoyable , reading about islands is nowhere near as rewarding as visiting them , and I consider myself fortunate in having been able to spend some time on the north Atlantic islands of Iceland , the Faroe Islands and that most remote of the British islands , St Kilda . |
| 14 | Sir : I consider myself fortunate in having selected your launch issue from the station bookshop , being attracted by the price , for as a relatively new computer user I find the content both interesting and easy to read and understand . |
| 15 | P.S. I am Gabby 's biggest fan so I consider myself neutral on the Graf/Seles controversy . |
| 16 | ‘ I confess myself bewildered by it all — since my lord 's death , you see , it has been difficult to determine one 's friends from one 's enemies ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I tell myself that . |
| 18 | I tell myself that silence is more likely to be a personal choice than an imposed one . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah I tell myself that , that they do n't get taken off in nature so I leave them |
| 20 | I tell meself dis is no way fe grow , |
| 21 | This is not supposed to be fiction , but as I write I find myself obliged to make a judgement about Leavitt . |
| 22 | I picture the old man hopping and pacing to his cottage , finding the paper , finding the passage , transcribing it , bobbing back to the club and slipping the note under my door , in order to set the record straight ; I find myself close to tears . |
| 23 | Yet somehow , unaccountably , I find myself 16 behind needing the last three colours to even the match . |
| 24 | I find myself incredulous . |
| 25 | I ca n't put it easily out of my mind , and the gentle tone nags at me , so that I find myself worrying , asking my friends in a roundabout way : by the way , what do you weigh ? |
| 26 | Moderator between the eligibility of infant bap fo infant baptism and the confirmation service I find myself unclear , what do we do with children who are unbaptised say between the ages of three and twelve , whose parents are not ba themselves church members and who are not prepared to take the promises for them ? |
| 27 | I find myself intolerant of management books that seek to prescribe exactly ‘ how it should be done ’ . |
| 28 | I find myself able to place the words , in all their moving directness , right into the laibon 's mouth as he spoke , with Ol Doinyo Lengai away in the distance looking like a steamed pudding , its runnelled slopes lightly coated with cream , poured from above but vitrified before reaching the base . |
| 29 | Glancing carefully over with minimum head tilt , I find myself able to linger in sad secrecy on his closed eyes . |
| 30 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |