Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |
| 2 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 3 | I brace myself for the sight of the posters , unrolled and exposed , and the dole cards . |
| 4 | I braced myself for the explosion but luckily it went between the wheels . |
| 5 | I blame myself for the things that happened later . |
| 6 | I 'm a single parent , and I blame myself for the way he is — but I feel it 's too late to get through to him now as talking or reasoning does n't work . |
| 7 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 8 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 9 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 10 | Instinctively her hand drew the sheet higher before she chided herself for the gesture . |
| 11 | When you want to move somewhere you plan it in advance , you prepare yourself for the change . |
| 12 | The military historian , James Lucas , who served in Tunisia as Keyes 's runner , remembered him as ‘ a gallant Christian gentleman who sacrificed himself for the men under his command ’ . |
| 13 | Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks . |
| 14 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
| 15 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 16 | In what was seen as a policy of high personal risk , he proposed himself for the post of Prime Minister ( Ivan Silayev having resigned in September — see p. 38416 ) . |
| 17 | He blamed himself for the death of his friend , thinking that if he had n't used the ouija board , perhaps his friend would still be alive . |
| 18 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 19 | Let us content ourselves for the moment with finding out exactly which of the axioms given earlier are required to establish property M. First , then , we prove , giving all the details , Lemma 1.2.1 |