Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could kick ourselves for not realising the obvious distinction . |
| 2 | anger at ourselves for not making more of ourselves |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Instead of threatening Cumani , the punter with the violent rather than lucky streak should be kicking himself for not biding his time before backing Shellac . |
| 5 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 6 | Philip was mad at himself for not taking the cutters off the boy . |
| 7 | TONY COTTEE grabbed two goals as Everton over ran Forest , but he was left kicking himself for not completing the hat-trick that was up for grabs . |
| 8 | With a sudden pang of remorse , he reproached himself for not telling Zohra about the warnings he had received , if warnings they were , about the messages he had decided to ignore , on her behalf as well as his own . |
| 9 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 10 | IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED , NIGEL KICKED HIMSELF FOR NOT untying the bunch of flowers and looking to see if there was a card inside . |
| 11 | Act 1 scene 7. in which he is laying down the reasons to himself for not killing the king he even admits to himself that his ambition is very powerful ‘ vaulting ambition ’ . |
| 12 | Johnny Boyle pushed his way through the crowd gathering about Gallagher , cursing himself for not having arrived sooner . |
| 13 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 14 | He cursed himself for not having brought his keys . |
| 15 | So he just kicked himself for not having made the obvious connection . ’ |
| 16 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 17 | It blames current top management and the board itself for not understanding how bad the problems are or knowing how to solve them . |
| 18 | Harriet stiffened , totally taken by surprise and annoyed with herself for not realising the moment he mentioned insurance the reason why he was here . |
| 19 | She was annoyed with herself for not stating openly what was really worrying her . |
| 20 | A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting . |
| 21 | Anna , determined not to be able to reproach herself for not trying , took on the women and children . |
| 22 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 23 | Eva found herself about four rows back , wondering what was to happen next and chiding herself for not thinking to check beforehand . |
| 24 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 25 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 26 | For one thing , she discovered that her conscience was at fault over Jewish persecution and she blamed herself for not coming out against such cruelty earlier . |
| 27 | Her voice was very steady , monotonous and unemotional , and she was proud of herself for not giving in . |
| 28 | As she held her mother , she noticed how thin she 'd become and Hari blamed herself for not realizing sooner how sick mam was . |
| 29 | Cross with herself for even trying to work out his peculiar behaviour , she climbed out and dried herself . |
| 30 | It was as painful as hell , and she despised herself for even caring what he had thought of Mark 's abilities , but for some reason she desperately needed to know . |