Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] himself for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 2 | Mosley kept aloof , as if reserving himself for better things , but Joyce stood with Jim Bailey , a furniture trader , for Shoreditch . |
| 3 | ‘ Come in , ’ he called in a low voice , expecting Clare , and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation . |
| 4 | In doing so the student will not merely be preparing in the best possible way for his examination : he will also be developing his mind as a working instrument and preparing himself for legal practice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Guy tensed the instant she moved , as though bracing himself for resistance . |
| 7 | He was said to mate with cows when strengthening himself for battle . |
| 8 | Accordingly , Angel One had drawn on his ninjutsu training when preparing himself for the arena , with the purpose of springing a nasty surprise on his twin enemies — the Executioner and the Controller — should the opportunity present itself before he was himself killed . |