Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 2 | Friends of Fonda 's father said Peter should be ashamed of himself for linking a ‘ great name in movies ’ to such disgraceful junk . |
| 3 | Ocean should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for releasing this third-rate rubbish . |
| 4 | Which choice would you be most proud of yourself for making ? |
| 5 | Seemed proud of himself for having found out , because he said it 's supposed to be the planet 's big secret . |
| 6 | Folly felt quite proud of herself for remembering this snippet of English history . |
| 7 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 8 | Clara even grew quite fond of Mrs Hill , and proud of herself for feeling fond of one so odd . |
| 9 | I 'm proud of you for doing that . |
| 10 | He believed he had found a good humoured gentleman in Holland who would send him plants , but was critical of him for overheating his stoves . |
| 11 | Indeed , as late as 1638 the lord deputy , Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , was strongly critical of him for putting the interests of the Villiers family before those of the Crown , in connection with the Irish customs revenues . |
| 12 | But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed . |