Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
| 2 | ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son . |
| 3 | We actor kings , you know , We Shers and Simon Callows , write our books About ourselves for one good single reason . |
| 4 | Whether it 's to reward ourselves for an achievement , or to lift our spirits , many women find little can compete with the rustle of tissue paper and the thrill of slipping into a pristine new outfit . |
| 5 | THERE WERE eight of us who had voluntarily submitted ourselves for treatment at the clinic : two lawyers , two Italian businessmen , two bankers , a fashion designer and me . |
| 6 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . |
| 7 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps we could all be a lot more tolerant of ourselves for sometimes longing to be beautiful if we considered for how many years of our lives this had been held out to us as an ideal . |
| 9 | CHARITY is a divine attribute , but we are enjoined to give forgetfully lest we fall into the absurd error of mistaking ourselves for gods . |
| 10 | May we come to respect ourselves for sticking to our principles and living our lives with honesty and integrity . |
| 11 | In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again . |
| 12 | WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation . |
| 13 | Depending on who you are , some of these fantasies may well come true , but for most of us , these are dreams that we keep to ourselves for company on lonely training runs and to help with motivation . |
| 14 | In addition , 1992 will see the European Community as one free market and we have to prepare ourselves for further competition from other EC countries . |
| 15 | It is time we voted for ourselves for a change . |
| 16 | anger at ourselves for taking the job |
| 17 | anger at ourselves for not making more of ourselves |
| 18 | In the West , we search outside ourselves for the source of inspiration , creation and truth . |
| 19 | It is we who do not know , and like Peter we can be too sure of ourselves for our own good . |
| 20 | We punish ourselves for ‘ failing ’ and believe that we can not be loved , desired or respected unless we get thin ; and punishment is also linked to profit . |
| 21 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 22 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 23 | On our first meeting we had told Barney that we wanted to book the melin for ourselves for two weeks in June , and both it and the cottage for Christmas . |
| 24 | So perhaps it 's time to look to ourselves for fun , not to chemicals that make us edgy , paranoid , ill — and broke . |
| 25 | ‘ We never put a variety on the list until we have grown it ourselves for a year . ’ |
| 26 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 27 | We could kick ourselves for not realising the obvious distinction . |
| 28 | A minority viewed such anxieties as veiled excuses for inaction , but the majority would endorse the warning Herzen had delivered in 1862 that the revolutionaries must not ‘ take the people for clay and ourselves for sculptors ’ . |
| 29 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 30 | Let us content ourselves for the moment with finding out exactly which of the axioms given earlier are required to establish property M. First , then , we prove , giving all the details , Lemma 1.2.1 |