Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we 're talking about basing yourself for three weeks on that same golf course . |
| 2 | I , I , I am certainly not that man , I would , I would not dream of offering myself for such a ghastly post |
| 3 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 4 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 5 | Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger . |