Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] myself for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written .
2 I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years !
3 That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time .
4 All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry .
5 I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote .
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