Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 2 | He 's in a sense living there is in indictment of an attitude and the love and the care that the church and a society that proclaims to be civilized has for itself , and I think we 'll have to leave it there . |
| 3 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
| 4 | Some called for myself , demanding to know why I was not present . ’ |
| 5 | In such cases the court must give proper weight to the child 's wishes , and be slow to reject them , but in the final analysis should be free to determine for itself what the child 's best interests require . |
| 6 | However , you are bound to discover for yourself many species that I have not had space to describe , as it is always interesting to experiment for yourself . |
| 7 | As self-governing bodies , local education authorities are , by and large , free to decide for themselves the amount of money they will spend on education . |
| 8 | A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn . |
| 9 | Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself , in all cases , as the ages and generations which preceded it … |
| 10 | The final text leaves this clash alone , free to speak for itself in a world where the reader believes he understands Stepan better than the narrator does . |
| 11 | At that particular moment of time , as the leader of the Labour group here , I had a discussion with the leader of the Labour group on Thamesdown Borough Council , with the political officer down there , and I was asked to resist any attempt to sell off the garden of Swindon , because once Thamesdown became a unitary authority , it would want that to sell for itself to get it 's capital . |
| 12 | John de Neville , an important English baron and a former Chief Justice of the Forest , who held for life the wardenship of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , was convicted of grave offences , amerced in the enormous sum of 2,000 marks , and deprived of his wardenship , which Passelewe in 1246 secured for himself . |
| 13 | In the case of Re Pogue , the court declined to make the patient 's refusal based on her belief as a Jehovah 's Witness a basis for declaring her incompetent to decide for herself . |
| 14 | He certainly did n't have much to say for himself . ’ |
| 15 | She said tersely , ‘ It seems to me that Adam has had far too much to say for himself . |
| 16 | ‘ You have n't got much to say for yourself . |
| 17 | Little tarts with too much make up and too much to say for themselves . |
| 18 | Modern pressures have ensured that today 's youngsters have far too much to say for themselves and do not always display the respect for their elders which they should . |
| 19 | " Not much to say for 'imself , 'as he ? |
| 20 | ‘ The silent nymph you were six years ago fascinated me , but the woman with so much to say for herself is infinitely more stimulating . ’ |
| 21 | Thus we assume that the forces of demand and supply have free play ; that there is no close combination among dealers on either side , but each acts for himself , and there is much free competition ; that is , buyers generally compete freely with buyers , and sellers compete freely with sellers . |
| 22 | … The common ordinary mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it … |
| 23 | For many a stay in hospital is in appropriate but they are often too weak or ill to care for themselves properly . |
| 24 | Thus when I favour pay for ‘ childcare ’ I mean the day-to-day domestic care of people who need it ( obviously I would include adults too infirm to care for themselves ) . |
| 25 | The installation of a water softner is likely to pay for itself very quickly , as well as minimise costly and time consuming remedial maintenance . |
| 26 | Left holding the baby , single mothers find it hard to fend for themselves . |
| 27 | Too weak to do for itself . ’ |
| 28 | I thought it was better to see for myself , in case the boy was playing tricks . ’ |
| 29 | He could sniff out the personal myth , the crucial one we all develop for ourselves , and make mincemeat of it . ’ |
| 30 | In keeping with Ackoff 's principle ( 1988 ) that ‘ It is better to plan for oneself , no matter how badly , than to be planned for by others , no matter how well' ’ , individuals who have contributed to the policy-making process are likely to be in a position to serve the organisation more effectively . |