Example sentences of "myself for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 2 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 3 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 4 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 5 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 6 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I 've kept myself to myself for most of my life . |
| 8 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |
| 9 | All thoughts of tiredness had now gone as I prepared myself for breakfast and quickened my pace towards the barn . |
| 10 | I rise to return thanks on behalf of my fellow guests and myself for the honour you have done us , and the pleasure you have given us , by asking us to share in this , your annual occasion . |
| 11 | I was a little bit of a skinhead myself for a while . |
| 12 | I wrote to that older brother of yours , ‘ My capabilities are of little matter now ’ , but I suppose I might be as well off writing to myself for all the answer I 'm likely to get . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm real chuffed with myself for thinking of that . |
| 14 | Talking of which , you 'll laugh when you hear I went a bit bonkers myself for a while . |
| 15 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 16 | We lay there silently , then he got up and left the room , leaving me lying there in an agony of frustration and guilt , furious with myself for having given way , yet curiously glad I had finally done so . |
| 17 | It was the social security man , and recognizing his voice I braced myself for what he might say . |
| 18 | I prepared myself for immersion , with my new book of instructions at hand , and then went down the steps of the mikva into the water , with my mother and friend and the attendant watching me . |
| 19 | I have grown it myself for the last twelve years , in a small colony in a north-facing border which maintains itself by self-sown seedlings . |
| 20 | John is the only person I talk to about how ugly and disgusting I feel , how fat I think I am , how much I hate myself for being out of control . |
| 21 | I cursed myself for lack of balance ; I was determined to be a professional dancer . |
| 22 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 23 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 24 | The sharing of genes means that it is possible to sacrifice myself for my sister in such a way that , even if I die in the process , a proportion of my genes will survive in the next generation . |
| 25 | My cousin probably shares with me only one-sixteenth of my genes , so that to sacrifice myself for her would be an activity of less fitness than sacrificing for my sister . |
| 26 | I 'm not saving myself for you , or anything , but there 's nothing fuckable for miles . |
| 27 | I curse myself for not strangling you in your cradle . |
| 28 | Trapped in a nightmare of indecision , I reluctantly agreed and prepared myself for the worst . |
| 29 | I would n't be able to live with myself for putting him through that , but then he would nicker to me and I could breath a sigh of relief . |
| 30 | I was excited at the thought of finding fossils eight hundred miles from the sea , but I chastised myself for being so stupid . |