Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 2 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 3 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 4 | I cam away feeling better because I 'd saved myself quite a bit of money , and I 'd done my bit towards helping the environment . |
| 5 | I 'd trained myself to have no feelings — yet suddenly I 'm coming back to life . |
| 6 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |
| 7 | So many times I 'd prepared myself and others for his death . |
| 8 | ‘ There was no reason to tell you of my proposal until I 'd assured myself of his agreement to it . ’ |
| 9 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 10 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 12 | I thanked him for dinner and said how much I 'd enjoyed myself . |
| 13 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 14 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd promised myself then and there : I was n't going for a second appointment . |
| 16 | ‘ I actually adored it , ’ she said to Adam , ‘ only I 'd promised myself I 'd go to Greece these holidays and I absolutely ca n't not go now . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 18 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 19 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 20 | I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with . |
| 21 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 22 | Embarrassing too , the recognition that my interest in Laura remained less innocent than I 'd persuaded myself . |
| 23 | With hindsight , it 's clear that I was too single-minded about racing , too immersed , and that if I 'd paced myself better the joy would have lasted much longer . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 25 | I realised it was only my ego wanting to control this thing , and that it was n't a natural evolutionary step as I 'd told myself . |
| 26 | I 'd told myself for weeks that our wedding night would be such a moving experience for both of us that you 'd suddenly realise you were in love with me , and tell me , and everything would end happily ever after . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 28 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 29 | Certainly I 'd impressed myself . |
| 30 | When I 'd convinced myself that girl whose hand |