Example sentences of "herself [adv prt] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 2 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 3 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 4 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 5 | An exhausted Anabelle ambled to the gate and squeezed herself under for the last time . |