Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What it does show , is just how much of a theoretical problem Engels had made for himself in creating this highly problematical gens stage of history where there were no divisions of any kind . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 5 | In the summer of 1939 Boulestin left as usual to spend his holidays in the house he had built for himself in the Landes . |
| 6 | In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands . |
| 7 | The amount of power ministers had seized for themselves over the development of young people was also worrying . |
| 8 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 9 | Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary . |
| 10 | Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary . |
| 11 | She knew that she was always quietly satisfied to have him in the cottage , to hear his footfalls on the floor above , to share with him the meal she had cooked for herself at the end of the day . |
| 12 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 13 | Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 . |
| 14 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |