Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] himself for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 2 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 3 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 4 | He was probing himself for me . |
| 5 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 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 . |