Example sentences of "[to-vb] for themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the public took the opportunity to see for themselves in a unique open day . |
| 2 | The overall conclusion to be drawn from the above list is that the marketing department , in particular , disturbs the routines that other departments like to set for themselves in order to achieve efficiency in their own organization . |
| 3 | Allowed to choose for themselves under feral conditions , nearly all offspring arrive at a time when nutritional inputs to the dam are rising to a maximum , ie optimum grass growth . |
| 4 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 5 | And they learn to care for themselves with a sociable cafe selling orange and biscuits before home-time every Friday . |
| 6 | For those who want to cater for themselves in the fully equipped kitchenettes , there 's a supermarket right opposite the apartments . |
| 7 | He had abandoned it and taken the flowers to speak for themselves at her bedside , but she did not hear them . |
| 8 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 9 | And if African destitution has its roots in this shameful period of depopulation , so too does what was to become a family 's main defense against the poverty enforced on those left to fend for themselves without the strong young bodies they had counted on . |
| 10 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |
| 11 | In one town , however , second wave fundholders had been told to fend for themselves by those in the first wave . |