Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [pn reflx] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 2 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 3 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 4 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 5 | 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 . |