Example sentences of "[verb] for ourselves [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Children and young people are entitled to the same levels of respect , consultation and competent practice that we advocate for ourselves as professional workers .
2 Their need for food is easily met and the food we grow for ourselves on agricultural land is little more than a readily-available bonus .
3 because the rules that we 've made for ourselves in maths , er we will , we 're about to break those .
4 No matter how sorry we may feel for ourselves at times , there are always people worse off than us .
5 let's assume that Mr is right in the suggestion he put to you about the building on the left , that it 's a golf course and we can see for ourselves without any evidence there 's a man fishing on the lake at the bottom there , were you trying to suggest that as part of the deal at a lake would be provided or a golf club ?
6 Practically every day in one way or another we carry out some form of sampling for ourselves in our ordinary daily round .
7 ‘ We are meeting the goals we have set for ourselves in returning Digital to profitability and growth , ’ said president and chief executive Robert Palmer .
8 It is time we voted for ourselves for a change .
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