Example sentences of "[verb] themselves for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 2 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 3 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 4 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 5 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 6 | The 200 units under her command should brace themselves for a forthright style . |
| 7 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 8 | The Jones boys were busy preparing themselves for a whistle-stop tour of Texas , fuelled by the news from their American promoters that they 'd be playing Dallas and Houston the same nights as GENESIS , and that they were out-selling PHIL ‘ Two Houses ’ COLLINS and his Tory mates by three tickets to one . |
| 9 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 10 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 11 | MEMBERS of the radical black Pan Africanist Congress were told by their leader yesterday to brace themselves for a bitter struggle as they celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a fiery demonstration of militancy in the township where the killings occurred . |
| 12 | Lack of childcare facilities not only blocks a job , even if there were one , it prevents single parents doing anything else to prepare themselves for a changing job market . |