Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 2 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 3 | Then she scolded herself for getting carried away , when she should be preparing how best to approach her mother over the subject of Elaine . |
| 4 | She felt a sharp pang at the thought that he could n't possibly desire her , and scolded herself for feeling like that . |
| 5 | At the end of that time ‘ he qualified himself for practising whether as a physician or a surgeon ’ , and returned to Bedfordshire where , ‘ with the consent of the Clergy and the local practitioners , he attended the destitute poor ’ . |
| 6 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 7 | You could assume that the bucks would present themselves for locking up . |
| 8 | Few occasions , however , will present themselves for using the extreme upward limits of compass . |
| 9 | Very few farmers prepared themselves for handing over , tending to assume that ‘ next year would be time enough ’ . |
| 10 | MIPS is preening itself for getting the R4400 upgrade out in the timeframe it predicted it would a year ago . |
| 11 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |
| 12 | And hated himself for depending on it . |
| 13 | He hated himself for pressing a dying friend , but some gut-fear , some primordial terror drove him on . |
| 14 | He did n't know why he had come , hated himself for coming , but had by now tormented himself into a state of mind where he was deliberately looking for fresh spasms of anguish . |
| 15 | After much hard work — Hunt castigates himself for driving the first third of the race like a ‘ grandmother ’ — Hunt eventually got by Jody when Scheckter was held up by a back-marker . |
| 16 | A physician , Naumann , was sent along with a farrier to see what went on at Alfort ; Sick , a surgeon , again with a farrier , was sent to Vienna , and an apothecary , Ratzburg , was sent to Leipzig to fit himself for teaching botany and chemistry . |
| 17 | Britta hated herself for wanting the arm to encircle her again . |
| 18 | She hated herself for wanting to know , but the words just seemed to leap out . |
| 19 | But most of all she hated herself for awakening in the darkness night after night , with Nicolo 's name on her lips and tears on her cheeks . |
| 20 | She hated herself for doubting him . |
| 21 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 22 | She hated herself for falling in love so easily with her handsome husband , who , she now realized , could not be trusted . |
| 23 | It was a long way to Hackballs Cross , and she hated herself for going , spat hatred at herself as she threw the Metro southwards . |
| 24 | If you 're back in time , come round , ’ she suggested , and hated herself for grovelling . |
| 25 | Her voice was like thin sharp ice , but not cold enough to fully hide the pain , and she hated herself for letting him hear it . |
| 26 | She hated herself for backing down , but what could she do ? |
| 27 | Doubtless while our noble lords and masters stand back and applaud themselves for winning yet another battle . ’ |
| 28 | Seventhly , if the German states were to express themselves for initiating movement toward German unity , would they be ready to take into consideration the interests of other European states and to seek , on a mutually acceptable collective basis , answers to all questions and problems that might arise in that regard ? |
| 29 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |