Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We actor kings , you know , We Shers and Simon Callows , write our books About ourselves for one good single reason . |
| 2 | On our first meeting we had told Barney that we wanted to book the melin for ourselves for two weeks in June , and both it and the cottage for Christmas . |
| 3 | Next morning Davis laid about himself for 77 , his highest first-class score , Botham again bowling poorly and being punished for it . |
| 4 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 5 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm certain he 's far too sure of himself for that . |
| 7 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 8 | Control of the party passed to a new generation — the third Earl of Sunderland ( the most experienced , but somewhat erratic ) , James Stanhope , Charles Viscount Townshend , and Sir Robert Walpole — who soon fell to competing amongst themselves for political dominance . |
| 9 | She did not want to show Bridget the photograph , and was angry with herself for this uncharacteristic piece of selfishness . |
| 10 | Furious with myself for these creeping insidious thoughts I focussed on lengthening my stride and levitating the rucksack . |
| 11 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 12 | The inadequacy of nurse training in the past to equip nurses for these pressures and the consequences of pressurised decision-making is a very good reason in itself for reforming nurse education . |
| 13 | The employers ' initiative had ‘ opened the door for a new and fruitful phase in the council 's activities ’ ; the unions must now decide ‘ whether to keep the door open , let it swing , or slam it shut ’ ; the employers ' action was ‘ momentous in itself for British industry ’ , it was ‘ nothing less than a confrontation ’ — the word had become indispensable for all of us , from French planners to Indonesian terrorists . |
| 14 | Hope that for the first time in your life you 'll discover trust within yourself for another human being . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We had the field to ourselves for 14 years , and went through the peak of the market in 1989–90 . |
| 16 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 17 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 18 | The basic premiss , usually , is that whatever exists in a fundamental sense does not depend upon anything external to itself for own existence and is in every way self-sufficient , which is regarded as analytically true . |
| 19 | I wrote to that older brother of yours , ‘ My capabilities are of little matter now ’ , but I suppose I might be as well off writing to myself for all the answer I 'm likely to get . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ No , I 've kept myself to myself for most of my life . |
| 21 | Mary had found some oil of citronella in an old-fashioned medicine chest in the Deathbed Room and they rubbed it on themselves for good measure . |
| 22 | Since horse-drawn wagons went out of fashion , both gypsies and tinkers lead a curious , inverted life , buying and selling horses among themselves for sheer pleasure . |
| 23 | They could hardly have been more different from the swaggering louts of the Hotel Olympik who would chatter among themselves for ten minutes and then saunter towards one as much out of boredom as anything else . |
| 24 | Similarly , no two communities would be willing to pay more than £400 , since they could obtain a scheme for themselves for that amount . |
| 25 | THE NEED FOR the majority of county cricketers to cobble together alternative employment for themselves for half the year has long been seen as a compromise on the professionalism of the game . |