Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be can not marry himself or marry his sons or daughters without leave , nor sell for himself a foal he has foaled , if male . |
| 2 | He would never dare openly to disobey Smallfry , but he had learned to listen for every shift in her voice-tone and read for himself the most subtle variation in her smile . |
| 3 | ‘ Often at loggerheads with Holyoake , Greening , Hughes and other advocates of the ‘ 'bonus to labour ’ and the development of Co-operative Production by means of independent Societies under producers ' control , he was able to impress his personal philosophy of Co-operation upon the Movement and to win for himself a position of recognised leadership . ’ |
| 4 | He had imposed heavy and illegal exactions upon the forest dwellers , prevented the men of the royal demesnes from having their customary rights of housebote and haybote , and taken for himself the dues for escapes of cattle and other animals in the forest , which rightly belonged to the king . |
| 5 | The king 's son feigns all manner of vice , exceeding even Macbeth — but professing for himself a list of vices so horrible that Macduff is forced to exclaim that if he succeeds to the throne , Scotland will receive a far worse tyrant . |