Example sentences of "[prep] ourselves for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We actor kings , you know , We Shers and Simon Callows , write our books About ourselves for one good single reason . |
| 2 | It is time we voted for ourselves for a change . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is we who do not know , and like Peter we can be too sure of ourselves for our own good . |
| 7 | WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So perhaps it 's time to look to ourselves for fun , not to chemicals that make us edgy , paranoid , ill — and broke . |
| 10 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 11 | We 'll go down again now , but let's keep to ourselves for a while . " |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd prefer to keep our secret to ourselves for a bit , ’ Adam said firmly . |
| 13 | ‘ We had the field to ourselves for 14 years , and went through the peak of the market in 1989–90 . |
| 14 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 15 | In the West , we search outside ourselves for the source of inspiration , creation and truth . |
| 16 | anger at ourselves for taking the job |
| 17 | anger at ourselves for not making more of ourselves |