Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves for [art] [adj] " 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 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 3 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 4 | But we still are left managing those people in ninety four , ninety five , as well as taking on board the new triangles , the one with the horizontal lines , where we 're going to get people presenting themselves for the first time , and requiring services . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With extra time looking certain to end in a second 1–1 stalemate and dog-tired players steeling themselves for the dreaded first Cup final penalty shoot-out , the 30-year-old soared to head a Paul Merson corner into and out of Chris Woods ' hands . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The eagles talked less now and fell into their own thoughts as if preparing themselves for the dark months ahead . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 13 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 14 | So if we 've got somebody earning nine thousand , they 're going to want to know why they 're insuring themselves for a hundred thousand on living insurance benefit . |