Example sentences of "himself up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 2 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 3 | Gazzer hauled himself up to sit on top of the pill-box . |
| 4 | At last he relaxed his grip on her back and pulled himself up to sit straight in the purgatorial chair . |
| 5 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 6 | He spent weeks nerving himself up to get a big whale picture , or maybe a dolphin . |
| 7 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 8 | He gave a short , humourless laugh , and levered himself up to investigate the hamper . |
| 9 | She drew away from him , shivering as she left the warm circle cast by his body , and heard him sigh as he raised himself up to stare down at her . |
| 10 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |