Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 2 | WHILE Harlequins were yesterday contemplating the Mystery of the Missing Lock , Leicester , the club they beat in Saturday 's Pilkington Cup semi-finals , were gearing themselves for another wearing match tonight . |
| 3 | Here we 're talking about basing yourself for three weeks on that same golf course . |
| 4 | Emptying themselves for each other — |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was saving herself for Elder Seth . |
| 7 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 8 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 9 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 10 | RAF fear : The RAF is bracing itself for compulsory redundancies after the news that 2,200 jobs must go . |
| 11 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 12 | The print industry is bracing itself for industrial action from next Monday , Printing World reports . |
| 13 | Shares of the £11 billion company , privatised in 1986 , had already started to slide last night and the market is bracing itself for big falls today . |
| 14 | He sat tensely , guarding himself for one false word or gesture that might dry her up . |
| 15 | However , if you 've had years of not liking yourself for one reason or another , this can be very difficult . |
| 16 | He walked back along the path , rebuking himself for entertaining Mrs Diamond 's lurid notions . |
| 17 | I was kidding myself for such a long time I began to ignore the risks . |
| 18 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 19 | Mosley kept aloof , as if reserving himself for better things , but Joyce stood with Jim Bailey , a furniture trader , for Shoreditch . |
| 20 | one was because they er wanted you for four years for definite after that working in evaluation so basically you 're committing yourself for five years |
| 21 | But I suggest that the human will be wetting itself for some time . ’ |
| 22 | GRAHAM GOOCH is preparing himself for one last big effort as an England Test captain on a foreign field . |
| 23 | She knew he had killed one of her countrymen the previous evening , and she supposed he was now preparing himself for all the others he would fight . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years ! |
| 28 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 29 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought 14 years was a fair spell but I felt a bit sad and it will be hard to let go but I am preparing myself for that . |