Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 2 | ‘ He went to Prague this morning , ’ Lubor obliged nicely , and then added , ‘ He particularly asked that , should you have any problems or require assistance in any way , I must make myself available to you . ’ |
| 3 | The truth is , I look upon both candidates in the same light , and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country if I voted for either . |
| 4 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 5 | And a very unnatural mother I should think myself if I did not make a push to secure it for Gerald ! ’ |
| 6 | At my age , I should think myself lucky I have to pay Income Tax , I do n't think I 'm like it , no , no it 's , no it 's true . |
| 7 | That being so , ‘ I must immerse myself in the atmosphere of my homeland . ’ |
| 8 | I should describe myself as happily married . |
| 9 | Well I suppose I should introduce myself . |
| 10 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 11 | Perhaps , as my niece would say , I should buy myself a new dictionary . |
| 12 | For those who are n't totally sort of in control of the plot and I probably should include myself as one of them , what 's happening in this scene I want you to act out . |
| 13 | ‘ So you think I should hang myself , then ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then I must introduce myself to him , yes ? |
| 15 | ‘ Now , I must introduce myself . |
| 16 | ‘ But you were right when you insisted that I must give myself the opportunity to learn my true feelings , although … ’ |
| 17 | Since I hated the police , it was natural that I should feel myself aligned with the prostitutes . |
| 18 | Such an appeal was not to be resisted , but first I had to tell Meehan that if I did look into his case , I must feel myself free to come to whatever conclusions my investigations led me , ‘ whether in your favour or not ’ . |
| 19 | Maybe I should see myself back for midday then ? ’ |
| 20 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 21 | I must clean myself up and get some lunch — I have a meeting on grading with various people up the road in the Civil Service Commission at quarter past two … |
| 22 | I must limit myself to two others who have thrilled and inspired me . |
| 23 | I 'm too highly strung , she thought : I must contain myself , not stare . |
| 24 | I see no reason why I should sort myself out . |
| 25 | Perhaps I knew already what the answer would be — that I must cut myself free from him . |
| 26 | ‘ You know very well that you are not ; if you were so , I should have myself driven to some other park . ’ |
| 27 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 28 | To begin with I thought I must force myself to be matter-of-fact , not let his abnormality take control of the situation . |
| 29 | I must content myself with the last verse of a hymn in honour of St Bartholomew : |
| 30 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |