Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son .
2 ‘ I 'd prefer to keep our secret to ourselves for a bit , ’ Adam said firmly .
3 We 'll go down again now , but let's keep to ourselves for a while . "
4 It is time we voted for ourselves for a change .
5 ‘ We never put a variety on the list until we have grown it ourselves for a year . ’
6 In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again .
7 We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries .
8 A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch .
9 It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is .
10 We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England .
11 All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that .
12 ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there .
13 We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then .
14 Let us content ourselves for the moment with finding out exactly which of the axioms given earlier are required to establish property M. First , then , we prove , giving all the details , Lemma 1.2.1
15 Confining ourselves for the moment to pricing structures involving a constant per unit price , we found in section 2.2 that the socially optimal solution is not to raise all prices an equal proportion above average costs , but rather to practice Ramsey-optimal ( value-based ) pricing .
16 Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks .
17 In the West , we search outside ourselves for the source of inspiration , creation and truth .
18 WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation .
19 ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’
20 Whether it 's to reward ourselves for an achievement , or to lift our spirits , many women find little can compete with the rustle of tissue paper and the thrill of slipping into a pristine new outfit .
21 ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney .
22 TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers .
23 Malone fined himself for a lack of discipline on Saturday as Ards lost 2-0 to the Blues .
24 He cursed himself for a fool .
25 Instinctively all on the walls and ramparts ducked , even Seton , who then cursed himself for a fool .
26 ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans .
27 mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties
28 The sharp coldness pierced his skull and he opened his eyes , preparing himself for a Forest .
29 Eckersley himself for a time worked for Sir Oswald Mosley [ q.v. ] , joining the New Party and involving himself subsequently in commercial broadcasting schemes which interested Mosley also .
30 He saw the stone face and the living face unbelievably alike , and checked in his steady advance , himself for a moment still as stone .
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