Example sentences of "[verb] themselves for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 2 | As the Dwarfs steeled themselves for the inevitable assault , there was a loud explosion and the gateway burst apart in a cloud of dust . |
| 3 | what is it about cup ties … why do teams lift themselves for the big game … why ca n't they play like this every week … if they did they ; d be top of the league … |
| 4 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 5 | They had prepared themselves for an unpleasant scene in which the wretched boy , stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake , would have to surrender and beg for mercy and then they would have watched the triumphant Trunchbull forcing more and still more cake into the mouth of the gasping boy . |
| 6 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 7 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 8 | having found themselves for no good reason sitting together : Liz and Alix discovered that both came from Yorkshire , and that neither played lacrosse , nor had ever seen it being played , and Esther joined the discussion by volunteering that she had herself managed to avoid playing netball for the past three years on the grounds that she was too small . |
| 9 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 10 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 11 | The 200 units under her command should brace themselves for a forthright style . |
| 12 | The Jones boys were busy preparing themselves for a whistle-stop tour of Texas , fuelled by the news from their American promoters that they 'd be playing Dallas and Houston the same nights as GENESIS , and that they were out-selling PHIL ‘ Two Houses ’ COLLINS and his Tory mates by three tickets to one . |
| 13 | The eagles talked less now and fell into their own thoughts as if preparing themselves for the dark months ahead . |
| 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 | FRENCH inventors are being urged to gird themselves for an economic war against foreigners who steal their ideas . |
| 16 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 17 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 18 | MEMBERS of the radical black Pan Africanist Congress were told by their leader yesterday to brace themselves for a bitter struggle as they celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a fiery demonstration of militancy in the township where the killings occurred . |
| 19 | ‘ It is vital that companies prepare themselves for the new Europe and this initiative will help firms in the south . |
| 20 | Lack of childcare facilities not only blocks a job , even if there were one , it prevents single parents doing anything else to prepare themselves for a changing job market . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The speaker in the afternoon was Sue Beardon , of Voluntary Action-Leeds , and she helped delegates understand what they must do to prepare themselves for the new ways of working . |
| 23 | Activity Catechist — the person who ensures that all friends and helpers in the group have what they need to prepare themselves for the sacred experience — both in equipment and atmosphere . |