Example sentences of "be [verb] himself for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 2 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
| 3 | She did not know it , but pallor had conferred an almost grave beauty on her , so that Havvie Blaine , arriving on the minute , thought , not for the first time , that he might be selling himself for dollars , but that he was getting more than dollars in return . |
| 4 | Instead of threatening Cumani , the punter with the violent rather than lucky streak should be kicking himself for not biding his time before backing Shellac . |
| 5 | Then , of course , there were the Bruces , Lord Bruce who should be preparing himself for death instead of being involved in politics as if he were some young courtier intent on rising as fast and as far as he could . |
| 6 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 7 | He also campaigned against pollution but suffered the irony of being prosecuted himself for pollution in 1857 , which caused him to move his works to Miles Platting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Back with a ragga version of a Beatles song , he 's bracing himself for another savaging , but at least he 's got a hit , he tells TERRY STAUNTON . |
| 10 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |
| 11 | GRAHAM GOOCH is preparing himself for one last big effort as an England Test captain on a foreign field . |
| 12 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 14 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 15 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On Sunday 18 April , Dave was preparing himself for his first ever parachute jump to raise money for charity [ and to overcome his own fear of heights and aeroplanes ] when he heard that the jump had been cancelled due to bad weather . |
| 19 | Samuel Pipkin was tensing himself for the coming life and death struggle this evening , when the vital decision would be made by the Prince of Wales , and Mr Thackeray would be avenged . |
| 20 | He was probing himself for me . |