Example sentences of "themselves up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and Emily sat themselves up to listen , and felt most solemn : but the schoolmaster 's plain reading gave them confidence and Emily 's hand reached out to touch John 's arm . |
| 2 | Radio assault : A team from South Cleveland Hospital Radio are gearing themselves up to tackle a tough army assault course . |
| 3 | They were working themselves up to do it . |
| 4 | not so much in the earliest days , when US producers had not yet sufficiently geared themselves up to satisfy the demands of their market , so that British exports to the States were largely unproblematic . |
| 5 | We 're asking that you test the temperature of your politicians that offer themselves up to stand on the councils , and we believe that being a good environmentalist aids all of their political life and er saving the environment now will save money in the future . |
| 6 | How they puffed themselves up to outstrip others in their pleasure-giving powers , how they boomed when they protested they 'd avenge assaults on her innocence by others . |