Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] for [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public sector trade unions have been extraordinarily successful in gaining advantages for themselves in the pay hierarchy by exploiting their monopoly collective bargaining position . |
| 2 | We have already seen how Galileo argued , on theological grounds , for the differentiation of scientific and theological propositions , and how he created difficulties for himself in the process . |
| 3 | They excavate homes for themselves in the skins of animals and burrow long winding tunnels within the thickness of a leaf . |
| 4 | You can do things for yourself in the way of diet , exercise , good lifestyle , not smoking and so on but , a lot of women will need hormone replacement therapy just to replace the hormones that dear old mother nature stop supplying to us at the menopause . |
| 5 | Kinnock declared that " the Conservative supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet again when the Conservative party could not have secured victory for itself on the basis of its record , its programme or its character " . |
| 6 | There 's nothing important in any of these locations , and if the adventurers fancy a bath they 'll have to fetch water for themselves from the well outside ( location 8 ) and heat it somehow . |
| 7 | As unemployment has risen , more and more women have been forced to invent work for themselves in the informal sector , in street sales or occasional domestic work . |
| 8 | The reasoning which follows is based on the opinion , already inseparable from what has been said , that appropriation is a neutral expression and does not convey the sense of taking property for oneself without the owner 's authority . |
| 9 | Several advanced their claims and two , the Jamaican left-hander Jimmy Adams and the Leeward Islands fast bowler , Kenneth Benjamin , earned places for themselves in the West Indies team for the solitary Test against South Africa that ended the season . |
| 10 | Indeed it is remarkable that transferring males have the persistence and strength to rise in rank and gain mates for themselves in the face of such opposition . |
| 11 | The ‘ doing business ’ ( ‘ jing shangre ’ ) tide or craze swept through the campuses , motivating the students to make money and improve life for themselves within the confines of Chinese society . |