Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 3 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 4 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 5 | In the field of computer printers companies are readying themselves for the challenge of Europe , Lyndhurst West previews the starting grid . |
| 6 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 7 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 9 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 10 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 11 | Campese , scorer of a record 51 Test tries , the most recent against Ireland last weekend , had second thoughts about taking his World Cup winners ' medal into retirement , despite his claim that rugby players are running themselves into the ground . |
| 12 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 13 | Ironically , it ended just as the Giants were putting themselves into the play-off hunt with a 27–7 victory over the Green Bay Packers for their third straight win . |
| 14 | At the top of the stairs , somewhere beyond a short , misty journey , Jeopardy led Lucien into a room where a handful of musicians were preparing themselves for the coming performance . |
| 15 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 16 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 17 | This is the question an increasing number of consumers are asking themselves in the financially straitened Nineties . |
| 18 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |