Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] himself for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He straightened his tie and steeled himself for the meeting . |
| 4 | Slowly , the guide bent down , as if to steel himself for the fight . |
| 5 | The Chancellor gradually retired from acting as judge of first instance , and reserved himself for the Court of Appeal in Chancery and for the House of Lords . |
| 6 | At the branch of a St Lucia hotel , Doc pulls his face into a welcoming rictus and steels himself for the Happy Hour invasion . |
| 7 | ‘ Come in , ’ he called in a low voice , expecting Clare , and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation . |
| 8 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 9 | He is suffering from the consequences of this accident and reproaches himself for the distress the family of the child is being put through . |
| 10 | I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 11 | Accordingly , Angel One had drawn on his ninjutsu training when preparing himself for the arena , with the purpose of springing a nasty surprise on his twin enemies — the Executioner and the Controller — should the opportunity present itself before he was himself killed . |
| 12 | Peter hesitated in the hall , not so much to eavesdrop as to prepare himself for a noiseless ascent of the stairs . |