Example sentences of "for [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 3 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 4 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 5 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |
| 6 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 7 | He would , for instance , secretly buy 30,000 of a stock for himself on the account . |
| 8 | Either , therefore , Oswiu did become king in 642 , as Bede says , or Bede was able to date the council of Whitby to 664 by reference to the eclipse and plague of that year and he calculated Oswiu 's regnal year at this point for himself on his own assumption of a succession for Oswiu in 642 . |
| 9 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 10 | His prosperity is shown by the ‘ magnificent dwelling house ’ which he built for himself on the north Thames frontage immediately to the east of the Fleet canal . |
| 11 | When he moved abruptly to cover her , to force a place for himself on top of her , levering her legs wider to open her body to him , his coarse , muscled weight was a blissful assuagement of hunger , a hunger burning through her so fiercely that she felt almost faint … |
| 12 | The student should now score the passage for himself on the lines indicated . |
| 13 | De Gaulle engineered a majority for himself on the CFLN and promptly objected to Giraud 's claim to combine the functions of Commander-in-Chief with the co-presidency . |
| 14 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 15 | Taylor saw for himself on Saturday how the 24-year-old Aston Villa flyer has matured into a player of genuine international potential . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom 's right to decide for itself on the merits of a single currency is not an important factor in investment decisions . |
| 17 | Kinnock declared that " the Conservative supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet again when the Conservative party could not have secured victory for itself on the basis of its record , its programme or its character " . |
| 18 | Norway 's prospects of joining the EC might be harmed by its decision , if the EC were successful in demanding a seat for itself on the IWC . |
| 19 | But now , with the end of a gruelling theatre tour in sight , she 's making a name for herself on stage . |
| 20 | You 'll see for yourself on Saturday . ’ |
| 21 | First-class technique — you 'll see for yourself on the video tape . |
| 22 | Come and see this for yourself on your next trip to Brazil . |
| 23 | Well you can see for yourself on Friday , when we meet up with the main man on the golf course ; he 's full of fun and full of hope . |
| 24 | Her clever husband built a conservatory for myself on my house last year , the year before . |
| 25 | Opponents frequently struggled to cope with that type of galvanising influence as Howard Wilkinson 's team may discover for themselves on their return to Villa Park tonight . |
| 26 | The extent to which fans will carve out careers for themselves on the terraces will , to a large extent , reflect their commitment to the soccer culture and to their immediate peer group . |
| 27 | We are living in what may well come to be known as the age of the American soprano , with Norman , Studer , Millo , Vaness , Hendricks , Battle , Bonney and Upshaw all doing conspicuously well for themselves on disc . |
| 28 | Members choose what they wish to insure and decide for themselves on the sums they insure . |