Example sentences of "[verb] myself for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'll insure myself for my dad 's car , hundred and sixty eight pound . |
| 2 | Why should I beggar myself for you ? ’ |
| 3 | I could never , never , never forgive myself for that . |
| 4 | I was excited at the thought of finding fossils eight hundred miles from the sea , but I chastised myself for being so stupid . |
| 5 | I curse myself for not strangling you in your cradle . |
| 6 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 7 | I 'm not saving myself for you , or anything , but there 's nothing fuckable for miles . |
| 8 | The thought pleases me but what they think is irrelevant really ; it 's Marcus that I 'm saving myself for . |
| 9 | I know I might go to jail , but I 've prepared myself for it . |
| 10 | All thoughts of tiredness had now gone as I prepared myself for breakfast and quickened my pace towards the barn . |
| 11 | I prepared myself for immersion , with my new book of instructions at hand , and then went down the steps of the mikva into the water , with my mother and friend and the attendant watching me . |
| 12 | Trapped in a nightmare of indecision , I reluctantly agreed and prepared myself for the worst . |
| 13 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |
| 14 | So once Posi had drifted the ship down near the surface , I prepared myself for my descent — the cylinder in a carry-net slung over one shoulder , a hand raised to hold on to my hairpiece . |
| 15 | I forgot myself for a moment back in the woods , it is true , ’ he admitted in a goaded voice , ‘ but the circumstances were exceptional . |
| 16 | ‘ I simply forgot myself for a moment , that 's all , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 17 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 18 | As engaged couples used to make conversation and play parlour games in lieu of the physical pleasures they were forbidden , so I imagined erotic scenes with Alison to console myself for what was denied me : walks and talks , games and jokes , company , solace , an end to my dreadful , soul-destroying loneliness . |
| 19 | To fit myself for this level of teaching after many years away I did an M.Phil . |
| 20 | It 's a funny thing but I remember gritting myself for Kirk for about two months because of his reputation for being difficult . |
| 21 | I 'd told myself for weeks that our wedding night would be such a moving experience for both of us that you 'd suddenly realise you were in love with me , and tell me , and everything would end happily ever after . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 24 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 25 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 26 | I hated myself for letting you control my life when you despised me . ’ |
| 27 | I was relieved — I hated myself for it , but I was relieved . |
| 28 | I use Nick shamelessly and I do n't like myself for it . |
| 29 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 30 | I think about it a couple of hundred times a day and kick myself for not staying right there . |