Sentence examples for given myself for from inspiring English sources

Woe betide the interpreter who thinks he knows better than the composer, who says: "I am always surprised, after the pains I have given myself for marking the ornaments which are suitable to my Pièces... to hear persons who have learned them without heeding my instructions.

I gave myself for five months, everything I can".

And the second thing that I gave myself for my birthday?

By page seven of his memoir, also called Million Dollar Arm, he's bragging in American Psycho-like detail about his designer clothes and absurd watch collection ("30 timepieces, lined up as neatly as soldiers … Patek Philippe, Rolex, Audemars Piguet and Breitling – the reward I gave myself for doing well").

For me, this used to be followed by the unfair tongue lashings I gave myself for falling short, which were slathered in "shoulds": "I should be more active in my networking efforts". "I really should be more present when I'm at home with family". Even worse, my verbal proclamations started to sound like hot air to those within earshot.

Here are the reminders I am giving myself for this holiday season.

After spending time with the bike, as one of those riders and possible buyers, I can say it is definitely a bike I would be hard pressed to resist giving myself for Christmas.

I have expressed my support for gun control emphatically, here and elsewhere, and in so doing given myself up for human target practice.

"I'm learning that I'm a lot stronger than I've ever given myself credit for," said Abbott, a 24-year-old from Aspen, Colo.

I learned that I am worth so much more than I had given myself credit for while married.

"I didn't believe in myself and I should have given myself more credit for being there.