Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 2 | Trapped in a nightmare of indecision , I reluctantly agreed and prepared myself for the worst . |
| 3 | Tippy lay back and prepared herself for the worst afternoon of her life . |
| 4 | At the branch of a St Lucia hotel , Doc pulls his face into a welcoming rictus and steels himself for the Happy Hour invasion . |
| 5 | I looked up at his face and braced myself for the inevitable blast . |
| 6 | The eagles talked less now and fell into their own thoughts as if preparing themselves for the dark months ahead . |
| 7 | Those who were too shy or too inexperienced to pray on those occasions would meet together on a Saturday night to read , to pray and to prepare themselves for the following Sabbath day . |
| 8 | I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 9 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |