Example sentences of "for himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Originally from Turangi , in King Country , New Zealand , McIntosh now lives in South Wales , where he has been quietly making a name for himself with his performances for Pontypridd . |
| 32 | One of the Meta Group 's star analysts , Ken Sobel-Feldman , also an ex-Gartner Groupie , is going into business for himself with Ken Muse , one of his Meta/Gartner buddies . |
| 33 | Anything else he needed , he should work out for himself with Hurley . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | If the husband is purchasing a house for himself with the proceeds of sale of his interest in the matrimonial home , then , as he will have to commit himself to a contract in respect of his purchase , it is suggested that there should be a contract relating to the sale of his interest in the matrimonial home so that he is fully safeguarded . |
| 36 | Mechanic , Steve Bunce is finding more and more work for himself with cars which have been driven on unleaded fuel and which are running into trouble . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | One day he would like to make a name for himself as a public trainer — but that is some way in the future . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Abel , who has a CAD/CAM background , worked for himself as Procon Systems Inc . |
| 41 | Abel , who 's apparently got a CAD/CAM background , worked for himself as Procon Systems Inc . |
| 42 | He ran away to sea at fifteen and made a name for himself as a good , but sadistic , fist fighter . |
| 43 | Samuel Beeton had already begun to make a name for himself as a publisher and editor . |
| 44 | He scraped through the Eton of Dr Edmond Warre [ q.v. ] , under the particular care of Arthur Benson [ q.v. ] , his housemaster , without distinction , but in 1902 gained a first class in modern history at Balliol College , Oxford , where he also made a reputation for himself as a roof-climber , despite his blindness . |
| 45 | Picasso had already acquired a considerable reputation for himself as an original and independent figure . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | ‘ Here this son brought undue pressures on his parents for the benefit of the plaintiffs , and for himself of course , because he wanted the loan . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | But now , Carey knew , it was every man for himself against the past . |
| 53 | As well as his chemical discoveries he had made a reputation for himself from his electrical investigations . |
| 54 | It 's every man for himself from now on in ! ’ |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | On balance , Williams probably gained more than he lost from his attempt to bring — and keep — together the separate traditions of Marxism and British cultural criticism , though as Parrinder has shown in a sensitive discussion of Williams , he made needless difficulties for himself by abandoning the concept of literature . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 59 | Peace did not reign for long as he provoked the ultimate chop for himself by one day taking his scissors to all of the models ' heads and cropping them . |
| 60 | 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 . |