Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | ‘ Sunday , then , ’ she said , and damned herself for the note of desperation in her voice . |
| 34 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 35 | Knowing that it would annoy Geoffrey , Anthony braced himself for the ensuing argument . |
| 36 | For some strange reason she could n't seem to relinquish her hold on the chain and braced herself for the wrench she was sure would follow when fitzAlan started towards the castle gates . |
| 37 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 38 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 39 | I looked up at his face and braced myself for the inevitable blast . |
| 40 | And braced myself for the deluge of his anger . |
| 41 | I braced myself for the explosion but luckily it went between the wheels . |
| 42 | Buchan offered himself for the job , but Chapman valued him as a goalscorer , and the link-man role went to Andy Neil . |
| 43 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Instinctively her hand drew the sheet higher before she chided herself for the gesture . |
| 46 | She almost offered herself for the fight , the surrogate , the already-victorious . |
| 47 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 48 | Smith absented himself for the shortest possible time during the annual 1st Glasgow Company camp at Tighnabruaich in July 1909 to receive his knighthood in London . |
| 49 | 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 " . |
| 50 | They parked the vehicles and camouflaged themselves for the night , before settling down to cook . |
| 51 | Maxim instinctively smiled at him , then despised himself for the silly band-of-brother-soldiers stuff . |
| 52 | In its original meaning çift referred to the smallest unit of land which could support a family , and in the early days of the timar system the çift was the core holding which the timarli farmed himself for the benefit of his own family . |
| 53 | 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 ’ . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Aroused by his orderly before dawn , le beau Colonel , under a tumultuous bombardment , composedly and meticulously groomed himself for the fray , washing his moustachios in pinard , in the absence of water . |