Example sentences of "[verb] himself for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the branch of a St Lucia hotel , Doc pulls his face into a welcoming rictus and steels himself for the Happy Hour invasion . |
| 32 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
| 33 | Just as the race rekindled Classic hopes for Stoute , the flame was snuffed out for Newmarket trainer Mohammed Moubarak , who blamed himself for the dismal performance of 11–4 favourite Forest Tiger , who trailed in last after coming under pressure at half-way . |
| 34 | He blamed himself for the death of his friend , thinking that if he had n't used the ouija board , perhaps his friend would still be alive . |
| 35 | He cursed himself for a fool . |
| 36 | Instinctively all on the walls and ramparts ducked , even Seton , who then cursed himself for a fool . |
| 37 | Amiss cursed himself for a soft-hearted fool . |
| 38 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |
| 39 | Malone fined himself for a lack of discipline on Saturday as Ards lost 2-0 to the Blues . |
| 40 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 41 | Knowing that it would annoy Geoffrey , Anthony braced himself for the ensuing argument . |
| 42 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 43 | It was obvious that this was where Harry Mack had settled himself for the night . |
| 44 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
| 45 | Ramsay , accepting the need , wondered whether even Douglas would have the presumption to propose himself for the position . |
| 46 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 47 | In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French . |
| 48 | Give Ray half a chance and he 'd blame himself for the invention of gunpowder . ’ |
| 49 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 50 | ‘ Come in , ’ he called in a low voice , expecting Clare , and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation . |
| 51 | He gathered himself for a giant leap and SPRONG ! landed right in the middle of the sleeping ducks . |
| 52 | Buchan offered himself for the job , but Chapman valued him as a goalscorer , and the link-man role went to Andy Neil . |
| 53 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 54 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 55 | Undismayed , he haled an old man out of the audience , stuck him in the chair , and then spoke himself for an hour and answered all the questions . |
| 56 | The sharp coldness pierced his skull and he opened his eyes , preparing himself for a Forest . |
| 57 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 60 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |