Example sentences of "[prep] myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been looking after myself of course and I got together her lunch at sits , I sit all the time . |
| 2 | Now awareness of other persons similarly depends on synthesizing perception of their bodies with imagining and feeling from their viewpoints , and awareness of myself on synthesizing imagination of my body from other viewpoints with perceiving and feeling from my own ; otherwise I would become , to vary Ryle 's dictum that the mind has been commonly conceived as ‘ a ghost in a machine ’ , a ghost in the company of machines , no longer aware that I resemble other people in the respects in which they resemble each other . |
| 3 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 4 | I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm always making a Phil of myself with fool , ’ he explains to Rose . |
| 6 | Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel . |
| 7 | when I say ‘ I am cold ’ I may just mean I am cold and it may not be a statement about my view of myself with regard to society and my particular stage of middle age crisis and so on and so forth , although , you know , given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous emphasis on |
| 8 | it may not be a statement about my view of myself with |
| 9 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 10 | ‘ I am twenty-four , independent , I have my own flat , my own business , and I think I can take care of myself for a couple of weeks on a small , friendly Mediterranean island , thanks very much ! |
| 11 | You do n't really think I risked making a fool of myself for a quick thank-you and a handshake , do you ? ’ |
| 12 | I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children . |
| 13 | How serious she is , Katherine thought , she reminds me of myself at that age . |
| 14 | That was n't my notion of myself at all . |
| 15 | ‘ I was proud of myself as a soldier , ’ said Loy Im , a 32-year-old former Khmer Rouge commander who had deserted to rejoin his family after 17 years in the jungle . |
| 16 | I think of myself as a pretty good businesswoman now . |
| 17 | Remember , I 've never thought of myself as anything other than an amateur . |
| 18 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 19 | I was beginning to think of myself as an athlete , though not a very serious one . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's no good — I just ca n't seem to think of myself as a European yob ’ |
| 21 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 22 | A strong intellectual or emotional appeal may reinforce self-image ; the appeal bolsters up my idea of myself as a rational/analytical/ thinking person or as a warm/empathetic/sensitive one . |
| 23 | My own sense of myself as a person directly conflicted with the kind of girl who was sung about in pop songs … . |
| 24 | So , I have pictures of myself as a boss , a father , a spouse , a friend , etc . |
| 25 | I only think of myself as a housewife when I have to fill up a form . |
| 26 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 27 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 28 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 29 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 30 | I do think of myself as a housewife . |