Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others keened themselves for any sound , for any indication of anyone responding to Silk 's movement — the clink of a grenade pin , the withering blast of a machine gun . |
| 2 | They blamed themselves for this unfortunate marriage . |
| 3 | As the geological cycles repeated themselves for some three thousand million years , as the volcanoes exploded and spent themselves , life in the sea burgeoned into many forms ; but the land still remained barren . |
| 4 | Ahead through a David Lee goal , Chelsea braced themselves for United 's response . |
| 5 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |