Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 2 | Round , high-cheeked , boyish but with a scholar 's high brow , it was the face of a man of twenty-seven years of age nerving himself for an extreme deed , a supreme effort of will . |
| 3 | Married but childfree , she 's gearing herself for a sad goodbye to her 20s . |
| 4 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 5 | She had butterflies inside , nerving herself for the questions she was about to ask . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first people to leave went off hastily , while others lingered , girding themselves for the streets . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Green Gartside sighs and lights another cigarette , bracing himself for the inevitable criticism . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 14 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 15 | Kruger collected 7,582 points at Sheffield , where Brannen decided to withdraw after eight events , saving himself for a multi-events meeting at Stoke this week , where he hopes to battle his way to the top of the rankings . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Kate was quite unable to offer any more resistance , in fact was so busy mentally castigating herself for the happy daydreams she had had while dancing with Ace that Dara had little need of her determination to take control of the rest of the evening . |
| 18 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 19 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 20 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 23 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Belfast is bracing itself for a vicious war between rival republican terror groups over drugs . |
| 25 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 26 | He himself had drunk one quick light beer before excusing himself for an early night . |
| 27 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mum , you 're worrying yourself for no reason . |
| 30 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |