Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [pn reflx] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem likely that more people get themselves killed out of pride than sacrifice themselves for any moral end . |
| 2 | The shorter this is , the more sense it makes to take the lump sum , rather than deny yourself for a longer-term pension that you will not be around to enjoy . |
| 3 | As a community are we willing to risk building a just peace rather than arming ourselves for war ? |
| 4 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 5 | Slowly , the guide bent down , as if to steel himself for the fight . |
| 6 | Mosley kept aloof , as if reserving himself for better things , but Joyce stood with Jim Bailey , a furniture trader , for Shoreditch . |
| 7 | The eagles talked less now and fell into their own thoughts as if preparing themselves for the dark months ahead . |
| 8 | While preparing myself for what was coming I also had to keep track of what was actually happening , trying to picture the scenes I was living through , but could n't see . |
| 9 | I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 10 | Punctuality was by way of being an obsession — although once he missed a recording session with Barry Took altogether and all but flayed himself for his lack of professionalism . |
| 11 | Guy tensed the instant she moved , as though bracing himself for resistance . |
| 12 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |
| 13 | He was said to mate with cows when strengthening himself for battle . |
| 14 | Almost as though to punish herself for that foolishness , she forced herself to look him in the eye and enquire , ‘ So , how is Janice enjoying married life ? ’ |
| 15 | Although code switching is as much an " insider " activity as talking itself for those communities which practise it , it is remarkable that most communities do not have a set of " folk linguistic " categories which relate to this mode of talk . |
| 16 | Accordingly , Angel One had drawn on his ninjutsu training when preparing himself for the arena , with the purpose of springing a nasty surprise on his twin enemies — the Executioner and the Controller — should the opportunity present itself before he was himself killed . |
| 17 | Peter hesitated in the hall , not so much to eavesdrop as to prepare himself for a noiseless ascent of the stairs . |