Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I worship thee for thyself alone , |
| 2 | But in the end the Turkish captain decided to keep me for himself , and took me home with him . |
| 3 | ‘ Stanislaus loves me for myself alone , ’ Babs whined . |
| 4 | Until you see them for yourself , in fact , it 's difficult to conceive just how magnificent they really are . |
| 5 | Have a go at them for yourself ; then check your answers with those on page 29 . |
| 6 | Read them for yourself and decide who is right . |
| 7 | You could see them for yourself , past the next bit of wood . |
| 8 | In the end , he adopted the role of ‘ cockney writer ’ , a role which was genuine , and which showed the boys that Corrigan was interested in them for themselves . |
| 9 | In other words , the fact that we get most of our true beliefs from other people , whom we believe are better placed than we are to get them for themselves , is just a special case of the division of labour : namely , of epistemic labour , the labour of acquiring knowledge . |
| 10 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 11 | Carolingian rulers did n't just receive them as a given : rather , they created , recreated , shaped them for themselves . |
| 12 | They 'd keep them for themselves . |
| 13 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |
| 14 | Later , if he was not offered those conditions , he created them for himself . |
| 15 | My own guess is that there was no significant demand for free condoms ; nobody is going to go to the trouble of collecting free condoms who would not be prepared to buy them for himself . |
| 16 | Having heard the stories , the author decided to investigate them for himself together with a friend . |
| 17 | In 1913 he came under pressure in the Commons for his failure to promote an air force ; Samuel Hoare demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the government 's policy by visiting the air bases to see them for himself . |
| 18 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 19 | How often he acquires them for himself , how often through another , is pure speculation . |
| 20 | These fast-changing times should cause all of us to reflect on the lives we are leading and how we can better them for ourselves and those around us . |
| 21 | We get them from other people by communication ; and we get them for ourselves by thinking , or by observation , or both . |
| 22 | The numbers are unbelievable until we see them for ourselves . |
| 23 | ‘ To witch a mother 's face as they 're read back to her , even though she 's read them for herself … the parent I was sitting with was shaking her head and crying . |
| 24 | Benny was such a big girl , she could hardly have wanted them for herself . |
| 25 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 26 | She chuckled , then might pick up the animal by the scruff ( if it were a cavey , or a bird ) , and dash it to death on the ground and spill the guts to read them for herself , then sprinkle blood inside the circle and on her cheeks and brow . |
| 27 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 28 | You can rent a week or a fortnight in one , or buy a share in one , but Cal 's family have bought theirs for themselves . |
| 29 | I wish I could see you for myself all the same . ’ |
| 30 | Love you for yourself alone |