Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is we who do not know , and like Peter we can be too sure of ourselves for our own good . |
| 2 | Treading almost on the heels of this conviction was the bogey of Havelock Wilson himself for whom many employers harboured feelings " perilously near hatred " . |
| 3 | ‘ Mark you , Southey ! — I will do my Duty , ’ he wrote from London five days later , as he steeled himself for his promised return to Bristol and the renewal of his relationship with Sara . |
| 4 | He meticulously prepared himself for his first meeting . |
| 5 | Early that summer the new curate took up his duties , and Father McGiff at last was able to sit at his desk of an evening and compose himself for his planned period of meditation . |
| 6 | The solicitor is entitled to retain documents prepared by himself for his own benefit and for which no charge is made to the client and documents sent by the client to the solicitor the property in which is intended to pass to the solicitor ( eg letters from the client to the solicitor ) . |
| 7 | He finally went to bed , cursing himself for his own sentimentality , certain the feeling was due to tiredness and jet-lag , no more . |
| 8 | But , with the polls pointing to a hung Parliament , the Whitehall village of permanent civil servants is preparing itself for what one source described as the ‘ nightmare scenario ’ of neither Mr Kinnock nor Mr Major having enough MPs to form a Government or to push a Queen 's Speech through the Commons on May 6 . |
| 9 | The European Commission is embarking on a four-year , £52 million study of climate change , named Epoch , as Europe braces itself for its third year of severe drought . |
| 10 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 11 | On other occasions , the genome seems to rearrange itself for its own ends . |
| 12 | Although the Harter Act compromise was seemingly counterintuitive ( how could the carrier be allowed to exempt itself for its own mistakes of navigation and management ) , it became one of the most internationally influential laws ever enacted by the United States Congress . |
| 13 | Chiding herself for her reflex reaction of fear , Meryl strode to the window and examined the catch . |
| 14 | She was trembling all over , holding on to the car door for support , despising herself for her own weakness . |
| 15 | It would have to be the chapel , Isabel decided , scolding herself for her cowardly hesitation . |
| 16 | She cast a suspicious glance over the lockers and then shook herself for her wild imaginings . |
| 17 | ‘ I need to harden myself for my new destiny . ’ |
| 18 | If I 'm punishing myself for my religious beliefs , I 've damn well got a right to punish you too . |
| 19 | The significance of this was to give a much-needed niche for future leaders of the Third World in the years after 1945 to prepare themselves for their daunting task . |
| 20 | All over London the bolts on pub doors were tensing themselves for their daily bid for freedom . |
| 21 | In all previous stratification systems they have been able to divert blame from themselves for their lowly status by providing reasons for their failure . |
| 22 | You can revolt against it by a breakdown in health or morale , going what the Americans call stir-crazy' ; or you can accept it calmly , as just a temporary ‘ pause ’ in your normal way of life from which you intend to extract some good for yourself and others , keeping active , keeping your eyes on the world beyond the bars , and planning and preparing yourself for your ultimate return to it . |
| 23 | What better way to reward yourself for your original gardening idea . |
| 24 | What better way to reward yourself for your original gardening idea . |
| 25 | Do n't punish yourself for your old beliefs , or you merely add paraffin to the fire . |