Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 2 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 3 | She had butterflies inside , nerving herself for the questions she was about to ask . |
| 4 | The first people to leave went off hastily , while others lingered , girding themselves for the streets . |
| 5 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 9 | Kruger collected 7,582 points at Sheffield , where Brannen decided to withdraw after eight events , saving himself for a multi-events meeting at Stoke this week , where he hopes to battle his way to the top of the rankings . |
| 10 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |
| 11 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 12 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 13 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 14 | Mum , you 're worrying yourself for no reason . |
| 15 | Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , where do you want to start ? ’ she asked , bracing herself for the questions to come . |
| 17 | They clamp their jaws on it and hang on , martyring themselves for the sake of the colony . |
| 18 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 19 | She tailed off , cursing herself for the slip . |
| 20 | Confining ourselves for the moment to pricing structures involving a constant per unit price , we found in section 2.2 that the socially optimal solution is not to raise all prices an equal proportion above average costs , but rather to practice Ramsey-optimal ( value-based ) pricing . |
| 21 | The sharp coldness pierced his skull and he opened his eyes , preparing himself for a Forest . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 24 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |
| 25 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 26 | Serena Gordon , preparing herself for a year in London — ‘ I 'll take my passport and go to Ongar ’ |
| 27 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 28 | With a sense of impending doom heavy on her shoulders , she went up to their shared suite to have a long , relaxing shower before preparing herself for the fireworks that would inevitably , as night overtook day , follow . |
| 29 | Yet being able to step off the treadmill and stop judging yourself for a while is the only way to begin to take stock and to start to unwind from the stress spiral . |
| 30 | As Crilly can not drive , I ply myself with junk food and coffee , preparing myself for the wheel . |