Example sentences of "of [pn reflx] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seemed proud of himself for having found out , because he said it 's supposed to be the planet 's big secret . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Friends of Fonda 's father said Peter should be ashamed of himself for linking a ‘ great name in movies ’ to such disgraceful junk . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Folly felt quite proud of herself for remembering this snippet of English history . |
| 7 | Clara even grew quite fond of Mrs Hill , and proud of herself for feeling fond of one so odd . |
| 8 | Which choice would you be most proud of yourself for making ? |
| 9 | Ocean should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for releasing this third-rate rubbish . |
| 10 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |