Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] for [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 " . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |