Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] himself for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
2 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
3 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
4 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
5 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
6 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
7 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |