Example sentences of "[prep] myself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I caught sight of myself in the peeling mirror : long thin legs , blue from the cold , clashing with the bright pink mini-dress which began at my neck and finished at my knickers . |
| 2 | I caught sight of myself in the peeling mirror : long thin legs , blue from the cold clashing with the bright pink mini-dress which began at my neck and finished at my knicker legs … |
| 3 | I caught sight of myself in the mirror . ’ |
| 4 | What did that do to me as a person , to my sense of myself in the Christian church ? |
| 5 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 6 | Soon I shall start snarling at visitors and grubbing for nourishment in the fields , simply because I can not bear to think of myself in the same category as Betty , and she has laid claim to humanity . |
| 7 | There 's too much of myself in it , Harry , too much ! ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know why I should burden you with this and make an exhibition of myself in front of eveN– one . ’ |
| 9 | She seems lively , her bed strewn with magazines and a pint glass of 7-UP by her side , reminding me of myself in childhood , when I stayed home from school with flu , drinking flat 7-UP , eating Saltines . |
| 10 | I caught sight of myself in that reflected window world that you can only see when it 's dark outside . |
| 11 | I could take some colour photos of myself in the whole ensemble and maybe send Marcus one . |
| 12 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |
| 13 | ‘ And if Wavebreaker does sail across the Atlantic ’ — I was carefully not including myself in that statement , and I was also piling on the practical difficulties attendant on the cruise-cure — ‘ she 'll need a proper crew . |
| 14 | I was attending a garden party in Reigate , and feeling very pleased with myself in my third-hand dinner jacket , scarlet ‘ Hoofer ’ trousers , and a lapel-badge which said : ‘ We are all prostitutes ’ . |
| 15 | She writes : ‘ I have been pleased with myself in a small way , because I have succeeded in making a different life ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I promise I 'll think of others before myself in future , ’ she said , and her Mum hugged her tight . |
| 17 | Yet who would have thought I would talk to myself in this way in these notes ? he wrote . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 19 | When I talk to myself in my mind , it is always her I talk to . |
| 20 | I nodded to myself in heartfelt agreement ( in those days children did not comment unless asked , and their presence was usually forgotten ) . |
| 21 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 22 | All the way I 'd be talking to myself in my head , saying , ‘ Um , yes , that 's a so-and-so , ’ practising my identification skills . |
| 23 | With setts that I watch regularly , I usually talk to myself in a low , quiet voice as I arrive and just before I leave . |
| 24 | I learned enormous quantities to say to myself in bed at night . |
| 25 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
| 26 | Here is a rather stern injunction I addressed to myself in my notebook on this subject . |
| 27 | I can put an end to myself in it . |
| 28 | Shortly before Christmas and in the middle of correcting the proofs , he wrote to Rohde again : " The whole last part , which you do not know , will certainly astonish you ; I have been very daring , and I can cry out to myself in an altogether enormous sense , animam salvavi [ I have saved my soul ] ; for which reason I think of the book with great satisfaction and am not worried for it turns out to cause the greatest possible offence and in some quarters a " cry of outrage " greets its publication . |
| 29 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 30 | I am fit and charged with excitement , beside myself in a strangely literal way . |