Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 2 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 3 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 4 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 5 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 6 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 7 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 8 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
| 9 | He blames himself for the 35-yard rocket from Paul Gascoigne that ripped through his grasp after just five minutes . |
| 10 | No wonder Edward , in order to protect suitors from ecclesiastical censures or reprisals , made available a new form of the writ which was issued ‘ on behalf of many ’ — ex relatu plurium — in which he substituted himself for the unnamed petitioner or petitioners ; this form of the writ enjoyed wider popularity after the Council of Reading . |
| 11 | Herbert Morrison wrote shortly before the 1933 Labour Party Conference : If the Socialist League point of view were approved by the Party it would drive us to defend ourselves for the greater part of our time against Tory allegations of Bolshevism and dictatorship . |