Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first people to leave went off hastily , while others lingered , girding themselves for the streets . |
| 2 | Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away . |
| 3 | They clamp their jaws on it and hang on , martyring themselves for the sake of the colony . |
| 4 | Tennis players are notoriously bad in preparing themselves for the season — and especially the ‘ off ’ season . |
| 5 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 6 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 7 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 8 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 9 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 10 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 11 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 12 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 13 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the three pioneers are readying themselves for a surge of interest : Marcos has appointed its Coventry engine supplier , JE Engineering , as its first distributor , Westfield is looking at a trio of dealers and Caterham plans to appoint half a dozen Rover distributors as service agents for the K-series engine that will power its first ‘ turn-key ’ car . |
| 15 | In the field of computer printers companies are readying themselves for the challenge of Europe , Lyndhurst West previews the starting grid . |
| 16 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |