Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] himself for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 3 | Amiss cursed himself for a soft-hearted fool . |
| 4 | Aroused by his orderly before dawn , le beau Colonel , under a tumultuous bombardment , composedly and meticulously groomed himself for the fray , washing his moustachios in pinard , in the absence of water . |
| 5 | Instinctively all on the walls and ramparts ducked , even Seton , who then cursed himself for a fool . |
| 6 | Undismayed , he haled an old man out of the audience , stuck him in the chair , and then spoke himself for an hour and answered all the questions . |
| 7 | Maxim instinctively smiled at him , then despised himself for the silly band-of-brother-soldiers stuff . |
| 8 | If he gets away , you can easily have him become a nemesis figure for the adventurers in future , returning again and again to avenge himself for the loss of Juliane . |
| 9 | The second , referred to obscurely in Helen 's last letter from Margate , was Mr Thomas 's decision that Edward should not take up a Civil Service post , but instead prepare himself for an Oxford entrance scholarship . |
| 10 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |