Example sentences of "[verb] myself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was offered the Rangers job , he told his estranged wife that there was no way he would become a sterotypical manager ‘ working all hours and driving myself crazy ’ . |
| 2 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 3 | I tried myself this morning , in case you were fit enough to go home , but still no answer . ’ |
| 4 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 5 | Not wishing to find myself involved in contention , I ex-cused myself and went upstairs to bed before the coffee ritual was completed . |
| 6 | Yeah , keeping myself busy I 've got a lot of surveys coming up in Caernarfon of all places |
| 7 | ‘ Playing at the end of the field , being in contention , keeping myself relaxed but at the same time getting the adrenalin running , ’ explained Faldo . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't consider myself ruthless . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't consider myself good-looking . |
| 10 | I may now consider myself significant , even of importance , I may now feel strong and reassured by those who have helped and loved me , but for inner strength , the strength when I am alone or awake in the night , or when old feelings rear their hoary heads , I turn to what is beneath my feet . |
| 11 | ‘ I know I am a pin-up to lots of people , but I do n't consider myself pretty . |
| 12 | I found myself obsessed with voyeuristic sub-passions ; I wanted to watch them , I would not say so . |
| 13 | It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality . |
| 14 | I came out of the orphanage to go and live with my mother and I found myself one of the family of six living in one room , the house was a four roomed house plus a scullery . |
| 15 | After he became Prime Minister , I found myself comforting Harold Wilson on a number of occasions . |
| 16 | I found myself tolerant of Ghanaian customs that I had previously criticized , like the enormous amount of time and attention given to funerals . |
| 17 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 18 | I got my wings and I 'm gon na do my share , but as I got almost two years here , I found myself worrying about some poor tailgunner that was n't feeling well as he went on the airplane . |
| 19 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 20 | I found myself second curate in a large mission called Kibuye on the outskirts of Kisumu town . |
| 21 | While we 've all been quick to condemn guitar manufacturers for being too timid to boldly go where no other has gone before design-wise , I found myself unwilling to applaud the Valley Arts Carlton for its daring to be different , but not being able to understand exactly why . |
| 22 | But soon after the point where the catwalk turns left along the centre line , I found myself high-stepping through deep , brittle nest . |
| 23 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 24 | I immediately found myself more than occupied replenishing the guests with tea and coffee . |
| 25 | I even found myself able to use acoustic feedback through the studio monitors at a sensible volume , with the A2 DI 'd straight into the board . |
| 26 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 27 | Ah , well , I had to leave Le Coq d'Or and found myself penniless , freezing in a Paris alleyway without baggage or silver . |
| 28 | To my great annoyance I found myself jealous . |
| 29 | I waited a thousand years for my introduction , then the curtains opened and I found myself centre-stage . |
| 30 | I 'd be terrified if I found myself alone in London , never mind New York . |