Example sentences of "[noun] for [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 4 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 5 | Guy Ferris , already making a name for himself in the right circles , made a surprisingly determined play for the younger Miss Fox . |
| 6 | A year after our idle talk at Windrush , Judith Evelyn was in New York rehearsing her leading lines for Patrick Campbell 's great play ‘ Gaslight ’ , in which she starred on Broadway from December , 1941 ( the same week as Pearl Harbour ) for the next two years , and made a lasting name for herself in the American theatre . |
| 7 | M Beregovoy says that he accepted the money from his ‘ friend , ’ Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help buy a modest , 100 sq m flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs . |
| 8 | Mr Beregovoy says he accepted the money from his ‘ friend ’ , Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help to buy a modest , 100 square yard flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs . |
| 9 | So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er |
| 10 | Though soon earning more than an apprentice boy of her age , she was unlikely to keep much of her wages for herself in the early years . |
| 11 | Shirley Eaton looked fetching in her nurse 's uniform and a young probationer nurse was laying the tracks for a totally new profession for herself as the overemotional wallflower among the blossoming beauties of the hospital . |
| 12 | Until Wulfhere was able to establish a dominant position for himself among the southern kings ( see below , pp. 114 ff. ) , the evidence suggests a multiplicity of regional overlordships . |