Example sentences of "for themselves [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were asked to talk to them and find out for themselves about the families who had been thrown into such torment ; they were asked to talk about the children and about their lives at home . |
| 2 | AMERICANS have decided for themselves at the polls now it 's your turn to vote , vote , vote for the winners of the 5th Whitbread Scouseology Awards . |
| 3 | The extent to which fans will carve out careers for themselves on the terraces will , to a large extent , reflect their commitment to the soccer culture and to their immediate peer group . |
| 4 | Members choose what they wish to insure and decide for themselves on the sums they insure . |
| 5 | If the Danish Government was able to distribute 300,000 copies of the Maastricht text through newsagents and libraries , who has decided here , or in Brussels , that the British public should not be allowed to find out for themselves during the election what the small print of the treaty contains ? |
| 6 | They would then have an incentive to seek out wild foods when foraging for themselves during the day . |
| 7 | After a brief description of the nature of the school and the order the staff attempt to impose , Stewart Butterfield lets the diaries speak for themselves of the way this order appeared on one day . |
| 8 | The amount of power ministers had seized for themselves over the development of young people was also worrying . |
| 9 | There 's nothing important in any of these locations , and if the adventurers fancy a bath they 'll have to fetch water for themselves from the well outside ( location 8 ) and heat it somehow . |
| 10 | The Castledawson side , hitherto famed for being the first winners of the Irish Cup , are now making a modern day name for themselves in the B Division . |
| 11 | But whether or not one can establish the existence of general limits to the authority of governments , the normal justification thesis invites a piecemeal approach to the question of the authority of governments , which yields the conclusion that the extent of governmental authority varies from individual to individual , and is more limited than the authority governments claim for themselves in the case of most people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Everyone knows that , and the Israelites discovered it for themselves in the wilderness . |
| 14 | They excavate homes for themselves in the skins of animals and burrow long winding tunnels within the thickness of a leaf . |
| 15 | Public sector trade unions have been extraordinarily successful in gaining advantages for themselves in the pay hierarchy by exploiting their monopoly collective bargaining position . |
| 16 | It is worth noting that Allen and Overy , the London solicitors acting for the Baron , are beginning to acquire a certain reputation for themselves in the art world . |
| 17 | They have solved something important for themselves in the turn and turn about of a twosome . |
| 18 | Several advanced their claims and two , the Jamaican left-hander Jimmy Adams and the Leeward Islands fast bowler , Kenneth Benjamin , earned places for themselves in the West Indies team for the solitary Test against South Africa that ended the season . |
| 19 | Presumably Domark wanted to show off the abilities of their creation in the same way that demo programmers wish to make a name for themselves in the programming world . |
| 20 | Looks , of course , are n't everything , but they do have a bearing when it comes to choosing an instrument , and the Carlton 's sales figures may speak for themselves in the months to come . |
| 21 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 22 | The hospital visits Bishop Auckland , Newton Aycliffe , Shildon and Crook , where trained staff deal with scores of mental patients who are making a new life for themselves in the community . |
| 23 | De Man 's dynamic of absence and intrusion controls our response to his texts — Rousseau , Nietzsche , Rilke and Proust — and therefore to an ongoing critique on reference , because texts , like characters , apparently speak for themselves in the modes of citation and paraphrase . |
| 24 | The logical extension of this argument is that some form of interdependence might be possible , where Third World actors could carve out niches for themselves in the crevices that the hegemon TNCs leave unattended . |
| 25 | Indeed it is remarkable that transferring males have the persistence and strength to rise in rank and gain mates for themselves in the face of such opposition . |
| 26 | Cohen-Solal 's identification of three strategies , expertise , orthodoxy and prestige , enabling these three prominent communists to carve out a particular niche for themselves within the party structure , can not be faulted . |
| 27 | The ‘ doing business ’ ( ‘ jing shangre ’ ) tide or craze swept through the campuses , motivating the students to make money and improve life for themselves within the confines of Chinese society . |