Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory . |
| 2 | Although walls can be initially quite expensive , they require very little maintenance , little or no staffing and draw in many user visits ( 10,000 per year in Glasgow , 6,000 per year in Fort William ) thus paying for themselves after only a few years . |
| 3 | As a result , robots were paying for themselves within two and a half years ( Thurow , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | On the energy efficiency front , expensive internal stair light bulbs at Pollock Halls of Residence have been replaced with more cost-effective compact fluorescent 2D lamps , paying for themselves in 17 months ; a 95% efficiency condensing boiler has been installed at High School Yards in place of a traditional boiler with only 60–65% efficiency ; in the Main Library 5,000 obsolete light fittings have been renewed by half that number with improved light levels . |
| 5 | Practically every day in one way or another we carry out some form of sampling for ourselves in our ordinary daily round . |
| 6 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 7 | At night , when we slept in taverns , they stayed in the outhouses , fending for themselves like two animals . |
| 8 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 9 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 10 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 11 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 12 | Training is usually on the job and the main employers are the large commercial potteries concentrated in the North Staffordshire area , although there is nothing to stop you working for yourself at home . |
| 13 | They would then have an incentive to seek out wild foods when foraging for themselves during the day . |