Example sentences of "[verb] for [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 2 | At the same time as the Nun 's Priest is made to try to claim for himself in his tale the equivalent of : he , or Chaucer , reassures those who are able to share in the joke that the opposite is the case . |
| 3 | Judge for yourself at Stanley Central Club on Sunday April 5 or Ayresome Quoits Club , Middlesbrough on Saturday April 11 . |
| 4 | Judge for yourself from your own experience . |
| 5 | The shrugger does n't care whether he lives or dies — and the designer duel arranged for himself by this divided and indifferent man is a form of Russian roulette . |
| 6 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 7 | Members of the public took the opportunity to see for themselves in a unique open day . |
| 8 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 9 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
| 10 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 11 | The central objective was to establish the kinds of actions and organisations that people typically make for themselves in this kind of social and spatial environment . |
| 12 | Children and young people are entitled to the same levels of respect , consultation and competent practice that we advocate for ourselves as professional workers . |
| 13 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 14 | Thing is , it 's alright to tell people but they have to s know for themselves to be sure . |
| 15 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | SHe had no desire to discover for hirself at what point serious physical injury might occur . |
| 18 | Also , I believe most students prefer to be introduced to new ideas which they can explore for themselves with a sense of adventure , rather than be led on a Cook 's Tour with every fact and statistic recited . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Throughout his life the author loved and drew inspiration from the whole region , from Smailholm to ‘ Scott 's View ’ above the river Tweed and the house he built for himself at Abbotsford . |
| 21 | But at the age of forty he was at last beginning to wonder whether the image he created for himself in his twenties could stay with him for ever . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After a brief description of the nature of the school and the order the staff attempt to impose , Stewart Butterfield lets the diaries speak for themselves of the way this order appeared on one day . |
| 25 | Looks , of course , are n't everything , but they do have a bearing when it comes to choosing an instrument , and the Carlton 's sales figures may speak for themselves in the months to come . |
| 26 | Nor was there any flamboyant gestures from the pianist , just a stillness and controlled technique that let the music speak for itself throughout the evening . |
| 27 | AMERICANS have decided for themselves at the polls now it 's your turn to vote , vote , vote for the winners of the 5th Whitbread Scouseology Awards . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |