Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 2 | The first people to leave went off hastily , while others lingered , girding themselves for the streets . |
| 3 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 4 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 5 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 6 | But we still are left managing those people in ninety four , ninety five , as well as taking on board the new triangles , the one with the horizontal lines , where we 're going to get people presenting themselves for the first time , and requiring services . |
| 7 | Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away . |
| 8 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 9 | They clamp their jaws on it and hang on , martyring themselves for the sake of the colony . |
| 10 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 11 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 12 | With extra time looking certain to end in a second 1–1 stalemate and dog-tired players steeling themselves for the dreaded first Cup final penalty shoot-out , the 30-year-old soared to head a Paul Merson corner into and out of Chris Woods ' hands . |
| 13 | The Jones boys were busy preparing themselves for a whistle-stop tour of Texas , fuelled by the news from their American promoters that they 'd be playing Dallas and Houston the same nights as GENESIS , and that they were out-selling PHIL ‘ Two Houses ’ COLLINS and his Tory mates by three tickets to one . |
| 14 | Tennis players are notoriously bad in preparing themselves for the season — and especially the ‘ off ’ season . |
| 15 | The eagles talked less now and fell into their own thoughts as if preparing themselves for the dark months ahead . |
| 16 | At the top of the stairs , somewhere beyond a short , misty journey , Jeopardy led Lucien into a room where a handful of musicians were preparing themselves for the coming performance . |
| 17 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 18 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 19 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 20 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 21 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 22 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 23 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 24 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 25 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 26 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 27 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the three pioneers are readying themselves for a surge of interest : Marcos has appointed its Coventry engine supplier , JE Engineering , as its first distributor , Westfield is looking at a trio of dealers and Caterham plans to appoint half a dozen Rover distributors as service agents for the K-series engine that will power its first ‘ turn-key ’ car . |
| 29 | In the field of computer printers companies are readying themselves for the challenge of Europe , Lyndhurst West previews the starting grid . |
| 30 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |