Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 2 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 3 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 4 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |
| 5 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 6 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 7 | 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 . |