Example sentences of "[noun] for himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Before 1234 he had supervised the construction of a model dwelling-place for himself within the cathedral close , the profits from whose sale he later put towards Salisbury 's fabric fund . |
| 5 | The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans . |
| 6 | He would , for instance , secretly buy 30,000 of a stock for himself on the account . |
| 7 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 8 | The student should now score the passage for himself on the lines indicated . |
| 9 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 10 | One day he would like to make a name for himself as a public trainer — but that is some way in the future . |
| 11 | He ran away to sea at fifteen and made a name for himself as a good , but sadistic , fist fighter . |
| 12 | Samuel Beeton had already begun to make a name for himself as a publisher and editor . |
| 13 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 14 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 15 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 16 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That he had taken over Joe the Fish 's businesses and made a name for himself among the villains . |
| 19 | A sort of cross between Kurt Cobain and a Fraggle , James has already made a name for himself in the office for dancing around and waving his arms wildly while he talks , not forgetting the regular swishing back of that blond mop . |
| 20 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 21 | Guy Ferris , already making a name for himself in the right circles , made a surprisingly determined play for the younger Miss Fox . |
| 22 | We have already seen how Galileo argued , on theological grounds , for the differentiation of scientific and theological propositions , and how he created difficulties for himself in the process . |
| 23 | M Beregovoy says that he accepted the money from his ‘ friend , ’ Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help buy a modest , 100 sq m flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs . |
| 24 | Mr Beregovoy says he accepted the money from his ‘ friend ’ , Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help to buy a modest , 100 square yard flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs . |
| 25 | Taken along with his restrained reaction to the repression of the pro-democracy movement in China itself [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , his attitude gave rise to some suggestions that he saw a role for himself as a potential mediator in the Hong Kong issue . |
| 26 | This is the story of Okonkwo , the strong son of a feckless father who builds a position of respect and authority for himself in the tribe — only to see things fall apart as he is undermined by the arrival of whites . |
| 27 | But now , Carey knew , it was every man for himself against the past . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I got the impression that he was extremely alarmed about his own position and was determined to eliminate any risk for himself by a massive change of Government . |
| 30 | Wealth , power , dames : Daine could n't have Dreamed up a better situation for himself in the City if he had been trying . |