Example sentences of "[verb] for himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be can not marry himself or marry his sons or daughters without leave , nor sell for himself a foal he has foaled , if male . |
| 2 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 3 | He will then be able to see for himself the resignation , if not quiet contempt , with which his customers regard the service for which he and his managers must hold themselves fully accountable . |
| 4 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend therefore give me an undertaking that he will visit Dartford early in the new year , or on Christmas day if need be , to see for himself the damage that has been done to our river and how much has been lost ? |
| 6 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 7 | The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened . |
| 8 | The king 's son feigns all manner of vice , exceeding even Macbeth — but professing for himself a list of vices so horrible that Macduff is forced to exclaim that if he succeeds to the throne , Scotland will receive a far worse tyrant . |
| 9 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 10 | Concerned about his influence , and afraid to beard the sultan himself , " the vezir Mahmud Pasa " consulted Fahreddin Acemi who , having heard for himself the Hurufi 's heretical words , denounced him in Mehmed II's presence . |
| 11 | In actuality it was the poorer peasants who grumbled louder and suffered more from taxation , as Yakovlev was to discover for himself a year later in Tambov guberniia . |
| 12 | He built for himself a house ( Larkscliff ) on the cliffs at Birchington , Kent ( 1906 ) . |
| 13 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 14 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 15 | Best to put off even thought until he had seen for himself the place where murder had been done , and the victim who had suffered it . |
| 16 | Yet no Scot who regularly watches BBC 's Rugby Special , and has seen for himself the standard of much of the club game in Wales , will doubt their latent capacity to erupt in attack . |
| 17 | After a trial lasting five days he was eventually convicted , under count 1 , of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , contrary to section 16(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , in that he dishonestly obtained for himself the opportunity to earn remuneration in an office or employment as an accountant to a man called Burt , by falsely representing that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and held qualifications from the Institute of Marketing . |
| 18 | Besides , Edouard should see for himself the vineyards and plantations there : they were doing well , Jean-Paul said proudly . |
| 19 | On his return , Williams could now see for himself the changes that had taken place in the social and political structure of Trinidad and Tobago during his absence . |
| 20 | He would never dare openly to disobey Smallfry , but he had learned to listen for every shift in her voice-tone and read for himself the most subtle variation in her smile . |
| 21 | Mr Fallon arranged the meeting after visiting Darlington to hear for himself the problems landlords had . |
| 22 | And the Rechem case comes to Scotland as the Judge sees for himself the former factory . |
| 23 | ‘ Often at loggerheads with Holyoake , Greening , Hughes and other advocates of the ‘ 'bonus to labour ’ and the development of Co-operative Production by means of independent Societies under producers ' control , he was able to impress his personal philosophy of Co-operation upon the Movement and to win for himself a position of recognised leadership . ’ |
| 24 | A clause inserted by Lord Muncaster reserved for himself the right " at any time during the said 21 yrs " , if he so wished , to become a " partner of ¼ in the concern " by paying a " full part of the expenses from the commencement thereof of working the same … " |
| 25 | By leasing he could not only spread the payments , but either enjoy for himself the benefit of a 100 per cent tax write-off on the asset of the plane in the first year , or come to some arrangement with a financier , who would build the tax deduction into the price . |
| 26 | BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators . |
| 27 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 28 | The enlister thus creates for himself a very real opportunity for mating , while the collaborator faces a real risk of injury . |
| 29 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |
| 30 | This brings us back to Le Page 's hypothesis : " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified " ; only now we can treat " linguistic behaviour " at a micro level , interpreting " from time to time " to mean even at different stages within the same conversation — perhaps even the same utterance . |