Example sentences of "[verb] itself for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 2 | The British Museum had better prepare itself for the worst . |
| 3 | Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient . |
| 4 | In the urge to protect itself for the negative battles of the present , the party thus pulled back from its only truly positive policy for the future . |
| 5 | Readying itself for the next release of Solaris this week , SunPro , a division of Sun Microsystems Inc based in Mountain View , California , will ship its C Transition Pack on July 1 . |
| 6 | The utility continues to make satisfactory progress to reposition itself for the periodic price review . |