Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 7 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the West , we search outside ourselves for the source of inspiration , creation and truth . |
| 12 | WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Freddie the Nark sat back in the cab , feeling very pleased with himself for the way he had handled such a tricky situation . |
| 15 | What Mr Byrne 's unpleasant and excitable letter omitted , and what has been omitted from all subsequent debate , is that Mr Smith is unanswerably the only serious contender offering himself for the leadership . |
| 16 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 17 | Slowly , the guide bent down , as if to steel himself for the fight . |
| 18 | In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 21 | Nigel did n't appear to notice her lack of ardour , but went blithely on about having the house to himself for the weekend , so there was going to be a party , and he 'd come and fetch her — |
| 22 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
| 23 | It was obvious that this was where Harry Mack had settled himself for the night . |
| 24 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
| 25 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And whereas other Renaissance examples of the exhortation to marriage dwell on the delight and solace of the married state , our poet 's argument , by contrast , is directed to the friend 's reproduction of himself for the benefit of posterity . |
| 28 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Give Ray half a chance and he 'd blame himself for the invention of gunpowder . ’ |