Example sentences of "of himself for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rather proud of himself for being able to visualize and draw such a convoluted position . |
| 2 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 3 | Friends of Fonda 's father said Peter should be ashamed of himself for linking a ‘ great name in movies ’ to such disgraceful junk . |
| 4 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 7 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 8 | Seemed proud of himself for having found out , because he said it 's supposed to be the planet 's big secret . |
| 9 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 10 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm certain he 's far too sure of himself for that . |