Example sentences of "[verb] himself for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament . |
| 2 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 3 | In what was seen as a policy of high personal risk , he proposed himself for the post of Prime Minister ( Ivan Silayev having resigned in September — see p. 38416 ) . |
| 4 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 5 | He straightened his tie and steeled himself for the meeting . |
| 6 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 7 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |
| 8 | Paul blames himself for the end of their relationship . |
| 9 | The Chancellor gradually retired from acting as judge of first instance , and reserved himself for the Court of Appeal in Chancery and for the House of Lords . |
| 10 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 11 | Slowly , the guide bent down , as if to steel himself for the fight . |
| 12 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
| 13 | He blamed himself for the death of his friend , thinking that if he had n't used the ouija board , perhaps his friend would still be alive . |
| 14 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 15 | It was obvious that this was where Harry Mack had settled himself for the night . |
| 16 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
| 17 | Ramsay , accepting the need , wondered whether even Douglas would have the presumption to propose himself for the position . |
| 18 | In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French . |
| 19 | Give Ray half a chance and he 'd blame himself for the invention of gunpowder . ’ |
| 20 | Buchan offered himself for the job , but Chapman valued him as a goalscorer , and the link-man role went to Andy Neil . |
| 21 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |
| 25 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 26 | If he gets away , you can easily have him become a nemesis figure for the adventurers in future , returning again and again to avenge himself for the loss of Juliane . |
| 27 | He is suffering from the consequences of this accident and reproaches himself for the distress the family of the child is being put through . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |