Example sentences of "[prep] myself the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and all to make of myself the kind of confection |
| 2 | To someone like myself the sum you mentioned is an enormous amount of money . ’ |
| 3 | Cara smiled , and confided , ‘ Actually , I was wondering what I was going to do with myself the four weeks he 's away — I 've sort of got used to having him around , ’ she tossed in , as if uncaring , when they all knew differently . |
| 4 | But if the day is fine and still and I am alone , I can hear somewhere in myself the sound of the hollow-ended drums , the clapping , the tambourine , the young voices singing , laughing . |
| 5 | But even though I was in love , I did n't hide from myself the fact that I would be unhappy with Estella . |
| 6 | All I can tell you with certainty is that I , for one , have no self , and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self . |
| 7 | What would my father and mother say , and was n't it time I took upon myself the responsibility of my spiritual life at that time held in proxy by my godparents . |
| 8 | In Freudian terms , I had taken upon myself the typically female neurosis of hysteria along with the typically male one of obsessiveness . |
| 9 | I put to myself the question : ‘ How then , does it come right ? ’ |
| 10 | I remember again sitting in the airline office in Lima , chanting to myself the lines of Elizabeth Bishop , ‘ The art of losing is n't hard to master ’ , and tapping my shoulder-bag , thinking , this is the important one . |
| 11 | He told himself : I 'll have to be more careful ; have to keep to myself the things Miriam divulges about her husband 's past . |
| 12 | I thought that perhaps I would sooner have swum in the pool with the crocodiles than draw to myself the hostile attention of that girl . |
| 13 | Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies . |
| 14 | I often please myself with anticipations of our return , picture to myself the joy and greetings when we meet , and I try to fancy the appearance of the dear children — they will be grown out of all knowledge . ’ |
| 15 | I have seen for myself the value of ACET 's work in the community and I would whole heartedly recommend other churches get behind the work in any way they can . ’ |
| 16 | The personal engagement encapsulated here is not , after all , wholly different from the introduction to that much more objective modern study , the justly acclaimed biography of Mary by Lady Antonia Fraser ; for Lady Antonia describes how ‘ being possessed since childhood by a passion for the subject of Mary Queen of Scots , I wished to test for myself the truth or falsehood of the many legends which surround her ’ . |
| 17 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 18 | I went to Brighton and saw for myself the absence of most of the top players due to other events taking place . |
| 19 | When I visited Bishopshalt school with my hon. Friend , I saw for myself the superb improvement in equipment and facilities that it has managed to achieve only shortly after attaining grant-maintained status . |
| 20 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |