Example sentences of "prepare himself for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 2 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 3 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 4 | As my right hon. Friend prepares himself for the important meeting with President Yeltsin later this week in London , will he take the opportunity of seeing what can be done to deal with the massive threat which still exists from all the different independent Russian states ? |
| 5 | The sharp coldness pierced his skull and he opened his eyes , preparing himself for a Forest . |
| 6 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 7 | I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 8 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 9 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |
| 10 | Mahoney sucked in a deep breath , preparing himself for the next round of questions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The second , referred to obscurely in Helen 's last letter from Margate , was Mr Thomas 's decision that Edward should not take up a Civil Service post , but instead prepare himself for an Oxford entrance scholarship . |
| 15 | Peter hesitated in the hall , not so much to eavesdrop as to prepare himself for a noiseless ascent of the stairs . |
| 16 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 17 | ‘ The test for Neil is whether he could have done anything better to prepare himself for the task ahead . |
| 18 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 19 | Taking a few deep breaths to prepare himself for the encounter , Ybreska stepped into the middle of the road to meet his contact . |
| 20 | And he wanted to prepare himself for the daughter . |