Example sentences of "it for [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 2 | I want it for her own good . |
| 3 | While electoral democracy is spreading across Europe ( and the world ) , why does Britain restrict it for its own citizens ? |
| 4 | It should be collected primarily because government needs it for its own businesses . ’ |
| 5 | Where Ken wanted to jolly the world along , Bernard wanted to push it and shove it for its own good . |
| 6 | Essentially I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas and I 'm not interested in it for its own sake . |
| 7 | Addictive use of any substance or behaviour is seen when the individual uses it in appropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions Or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood rather than simply using it for its own sake . |
| 8 | Anyone who indulged in it for its own sake was an out-and-out sinner — and that went for the resulting offspring , too . ’ |
| 9 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 10 | 3pm : IRN feeds broadcast ‘ down the line ’ to local radio stations as they record it for their own broadcasts . |
| 11 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 12 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |
| 13 | Even more importantly users are skillful at manipulating it for their own purpose . " |
| 14 | The rulers promptly monopolized it for their own regalia and as a medium for bestowing honour and obligations on their retainers . |
| 15 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 16 | It is also crucial to ask whether the media are able to cope with this growth in information and whether they can do anything to counter the efforts of governments to manipulate it for their own ends . |
| 17 | And , as we know only too well , every really valuable commodity falls , sooner or later , into the hands of some unscrupulous individual , who then exploits it for their own ends . |
| 18 | That I am not , is due partly to my dislike of professional boxing and the men who manipulate it for their own ends , and partly to the fact that Lewis is yet another ‘ adopted ’ Englishman , who has spent most of his life in Canada , and won an Olympic medal fighting in their colours . |
| 19 | The HMI document The Curriculum from 5 to 16 suggests that ‘ all that pupils learn should be practical , and therefore relevant , in ways which enable them to build on it or use it for their own purposes in everyday life ’ . |
| 20 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 21 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 22 | He did it for my own good . |
| 23 | He 's only doing it for my own good but I still do n't like it . |
| 24 | A consequence of this duty is that a fiduciary must make available to a [ customer ] all the information in his possession which is relevant to the [ customer 's ] affairs ; ( 4 ) The duty of confidentiality : a fiduciary must use information obtained in confidence from his [ customer ] , the beneficiary , for the benefit of the [ customer ] and must not use it for his own advantage or for the benefit of any other person . |
| 25 | In the context of this article , the need for a multi-national to engage in this sort of activity is likely to be limited to those occasions when the customer demands it for his own reasons , or where trading relationships have been established that would be threatened if one customer knew of the other 's existence . |
| 26 | It was venerated by succeeding Popes but had unfortunately been despoiled , first by the Byzantine Emperor Constans II who , in 655 removed the gilded bronze plates which covered the dome and replaced them with lead and later , in 1625 , by the Barberini Pope Urban VIII who destroyed the portico roof in order to use the bronze beams supporting it for his own building schemes . |
| 27 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |
| 28 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 29 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 30 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |