Example sentences of "and [verb] myself for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trapped in a nightmare of indecision , I reluctantly agreed and prepared myself for the worst . |
| 2 | I think about it a couple of hundred times a day and kick myself for not staying right there . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 4 | The next morning I awoke early and tidied myself for school . |
| 5 | I looked up at his face and braced myself for the inevitable blast . |
| 6 | And braced myself for the deluge of his anger . |
| 7 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |