Example sentences of "[verb] it for [pos pn] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want it for her own good . |
| 2 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 3 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 4 | A consequence of this duty is that a fiduciary must make available to a [ customer ] all the information in his possession which is relevant to the [ customer 's ] affairs ; ( 4 ) The duty of confidentiality : a fiduciary must use information obtained in confidence from his [ customer ] , the beneficiary , for the benefit of the [ customer ] and must not use it for his own advantage or for the benefit of any other person . |
| 5 | Conversely , eating the person 's body might indicate the ultimate contempt , in that you were degrading them completely : as you ate parts of the body you were mocking the person 's erstwhile vigour and simultaneously stealing it for your own use . |
| 6 | It was venerated by succeeding Popes but had unfortunately been despoiled , first by the Byzantine Emperor Constans II who , in 655 removed the gilded bronze plates which covered the dome and replaced them with lead and later , in 1625 , by the Barberini Pope Urban VIII who destroyed the portico roof in order to use the bronze beams supporting it for his own building schemes . |
| 7 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 8 | I mean we 're not doing it for our own good . |
| 9 | Well , I 'm only doing it for your own good . |
| 10 | He 's only doing it for my own good but I still do n't like it . |
| 11 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 12 | We spent two summer holidays and three Christmases at the melin before at last we were able to claim it for our own occupation . |
| 13 | You can adapt it for your own taste but keep the pointers in mind . |
| 14 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 15 | Addictive use of any substance or behaviour is seen when the individual uses it in appropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions Or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood rather than simply using it for its own sake . |
| 16 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 17 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 18 | He did it for my own good . |
| 19 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |
| 20 | As you work through the second phase you will be working out the diet that is as near to perfect as you can get it for your own body . |
| 21 | Even more importantly users are skillful at manipulating it for their own purpose . " |
| 22 | Where Ken wanted to jolly the world along , Bernard wanted to push it and shove it for its own good . |
| 23 | It was made for Barclays Bank and we are grateful to them for allowing us to adapt it for our own use . |
| 24 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |