Example sentences of "[vb past] myself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 2 | ‘ I doused myself with my glass of water and then I screamed , hoping to bring you running . ’ |
| 3 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 4 | On a wet Wednesday in March 1987 , as part of a short survey - not scientifically conducted , but as part of a personal investigation into the cause of alienation among secondary age children — I found myself with a group of seven girls and one boy , between the ages of twelve and fifteen , at the Didcot Health Centre at four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ He had to pick an England team from what was left after the week-end games a fortnight ago , while I found myself with just two players at Highbury for almost the entire week . |
| 6 | Again I felt that terrible pain and sickness , but a few seconds later I found myself with the face and body and character of Henry Jekyll once more . |
| 7 | So it was that , just before my fourteenth birthday , I found myself with my parents and brother at the foot of an unprepossessing mountain called locally El Jocoso , the Jocund . |
| 8 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
| 9 | I learned to read the galley proofs and familiarised myself with printers ' hieroglyphics . |
| 10 | But then , I told myself with a half-smile , I would be thanking a God-King . |
| 11 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 12 | That 's why I misbehaved myself with your Swedish friend . |
| 13 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
| 14 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 15 | I would marry a beautiful and capable woman like my mother who would look after my house and my children while I busied myself with more important matters in the wider world . |
| 16 | He was busy , my father , with unfinished canvases from art school , generous manuscripts about Beethoven and Medieval painters , a manual typewriter snug enough to fit upon a window ledge , and soup bowls heaped with cheddar cheese goldfish , gently serenaded by an old electric fan as 1 , in my turn , busied myself with Lego upon that slab of perfect marble . |
| 17 | I consoled myself with the thought that he would n't find out from me ; there was enough trouble at home already . |
| 18 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 19 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 20 | I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies . |
| 21 | I almost surprised myself with my reaction . |
| 22 | ‘ I paid for the rent for the villa , which I arranged myself with a Belgian count who owned it , and also paid the air fares for all the Mellors , ’ she said . |
| 23 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 24 | ‘ I just did a couple of wild things for the videos : I covered myself with a hundred thousand bees for the Flight Of The Bumblebee and I also walked on hot coals ! ’ |
| 25 | I satisfied myself with the knowledge that I would suffer far more from leaving him than he would suffer from my absence . |
| 26 | But the PE teacher was strong-willed and I associated myself with him more than anybody else . |
| 27 | On sentry duty one night , in the magazine of all places , I propped myself with my rifle on guard in a corner and somehow or other managed to let my feet out at about 30° to 35° to the vertical , and I fell asleep . |
| 28 | I astonished myself with this realization . |
| 29 | Anyway , when the complete transferral was done , I dressed myself with care and switched on a full length mirror for an inspection . |
| 30 | Next , I bathed myself with a soapy cloth in the appropriate hygienic order . |