Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] themselves for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 2 | They parked the vehicles and camouflaged themselves for the night , before settling down to cook . |
| 3 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 4 | The eagles talked less now and fell into their own thoughts as if preparing themselves for the dark months ahead . |
| 5 | In terms of er political views , or even those who have no political views , of ethnic make-up and everything of this kind and yet now it seems that at a time when our police forces above all , need to move into the present day and prepare themselves for the challenges of the crime and the criminals at the end of this century and into the next century , we seem to have some misgivings about giving the Home Secretary the powers which are placed in this Bill . |
| 6 | Those who were too shy or too inexperienced to pray on those occasions would meet together on a Saturday night to read , to pray and to prepare themselves for the following Sabbath day . |