Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 9 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 10 | Malone fined himself for a lack of discipline on Saturday as Ards lost 2-0 to the Blues . |
| 11 | He cursed himself for a fool . |
| 12 | Instinctively all on the walls and ramparts ducked , even Seton , who then cursed himself for a fool . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | The sharp coldness pierced his skull and he opened his eyes , preparing himself for a Forest . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He saw the stone face and the living face unbelievably alike , and checked in his steady advance , himself for a moment still as stone . |
| 18 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 19 | You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’ |
| 20 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 21 | Undismayed , he haled an old man out of the audience , stuck him in the chair , and then spoke himself for an hour and answered all the questions . |
| 22 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 23 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 24 | The industry tried all sorts of things to get people interested : Rover put a traditional grille on its 800 , Ford introduced a new way to buy a car called Options and Nissan even tried selling its cars itself for a change . |
| 25 | An animal might for instance prepare itself for a fight by learning a particular association between some noise and the appearance of its enemy in the near future . |
| 26 | The essence of her charm , independent of time , revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . |
| 27 | I said at the beginning , when I talked about the woman at the pool , that ‘ the essence of her charm , independent of time revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . ’ |
| 28 | Stoltenberg said on Oct. 25 that the study , to be conducted by the High Level Group ( HLG-set up by the NPG in 1979 to look at theatre nuclear weapons ) , would report possibly in 1991 ( ie before the 1992 deadline which NATO had set itself for a decision on short-range nuclear weapons ) , and could form the basis of a mandate for a short-range nuclear forces ( SNF ) treaty . |
| 29 | When a population gets out of balance with its environment disaster occurs : starvation , ecological collapse , and ultimately , the population falls upon itself for a bit of frantic nibbling and other distressed rat-type behaviour . |
| 30 | She heard a footfall , she pressed herself back , keeping an eye on the street ; in a doorway , further on , a silhouette detached itself for a moment , and she saw a man throw his head back and shake it as if intoxicated , while holding his arms extended , and she fancied she heard him speak to his own fidanzata of that evening , she imagined him murmuring about her hair — as dark as a raven 's wing , perhaps ? |