Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pn reflx] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a community are we willing to risk building a just peace rather than arming ourselves for war ? |
| 2 | Eva found herself about four rows back , wondering what was to happen next and chiding herself for not thinking to check beforehand . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 5 | Mosley kept aloof , as if reserving himself for better things , but Joyce stood with Jim Bailey , a furniture trader , for Shoreditch . |
| 6 | ‘ Come in , ’ he called in a low voice , expecting Clare , and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation . |
| 7 | The eagles talked less now and fell into their own thoughts as if preparing themselves for the dark months ahead . |
| 8 | You can revolt against it by a breakdown in health or morale , going what the Americans call stir-crazy' ; or you can accept it calmly , as just a temporary ‘ pause ’ in your normal way of life from which you intend to extract some good for yourself and others , keeping active , keeping your eyes on the world beyond the bars , and planning and preparing yourself for your ultimate return to it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They held their line and competed hard in midfield , damping down Oldham 's initial verve and preparing themselves for more of the same in the second half . |
| 11 | SEA-LION pups seem safe as they lounge on a Patagonian beach , slowly building their strength and preparing themselves for their departure into the sea . |
| 12 | Such , briefly , was the young schoolmistress in the slum school , caught with the tawse in her hand , and hating herself for being caught this way — these crying children , and feeling like an ogre . |
| 13 | You think going out and killing oneself for a few shillings is normal to a Masai ? |
| 14 | While preparing myself for what was coming I also had to keep track of what was actually happening , trying to picture the scenes I was living through , but could n't see . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Guy tensed the instant she moved , as though bracing himself for resistance . |
| 17 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |
| 18 | He was said to mate with cows when strengthening himself for battle . |
| 19 | Although code switching is as much an " insider " activity as talking itself for those communities which practise it , it is remarkable that most communities do not have a set of " folk linguistic " categories which relate to this mode of talk . |
| 20 | 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 . |