Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 2 | ‘ Blaming me for your own inadequacy . ’ |
| 3 | This capacity of language to crystallize and stabilize me for my own subjectivity is retained |
| 4 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 5 | Each of them seeks to use me for his own ends . ’ |
| 6 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 7 | However , even when the genetic indices are expressed in money terms , farmers and their advisers will need help to interpret them for their own individual situation in these early days . |
| 8 | I thought I was disgusted by the men who liked to stab women in the breasts , etc. ’ with no thought for them as persons , but just out to use them for their own satisfaction . |
| 9 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 10 | Each of them for their own private reason needed to live with death at their shoulder . |
| 11 | We 'd recommend people to stay away from them for their own safety , as there have been several violent incidents recently . ’ |
| 12 | It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes . |
| 13 | More generally Pazzi 's introduction calls down fire and brimstone on those who damage works of art or try to appropriate them for their own collections . |
| 14 | For example , if UK imports and capital outflows from the UK are paid for in sterling , then foreigners receiving these sterling payments will exchange them for their own currencies in the foreign exchange markets , and so the supply of pounds in these markets will rise . |
| 15 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 16 | Any queries about the machines being taken away had been answered with the half-truth that the police needed them for their own use . |
| 17 | It is therefore a bonus for the theory that clay replicators synthesized organic molecules and used them for their own purposes . |
| 18 | fancied them for their own kids . |
| 19 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
| 20 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 21 | Between 1853 and 1870 CD gave upwards of 500 public readings from his own works , mostly after 1858 when he began to give them for his own profit . |
| 22 | I remember a case where an architect designer , without excuse bent over the shoulder of his employee , a brilliant 22-year-old designer , and put his name unashamedly to the novel ideas and design of the young man , claiming them for his own . |
| 23 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 24 | Quite apart from Faber business , he had to settle down and write prefaces for three books as well ( one of them for his own selection of Pounds literary essays ) . |
| 25 | In this case , the student can write in pencil the words he is n't certain how to spell ; or underlines them for his own or the teacher 's later attention . |
| 26 | Possibly he 'd reached the stage of being one who would merely use them for his own ends — especially his sex life . |
| 27 | I wear them for my own enjoyment but equally for theirs . |
| 28 | Now , after the death of two of my colleagues , I need them for my own protection . |
| 29 | ‘ We thought they were most unusual and attractive and could n't resist them for our own house , ’ says Sue . |
| 30 | I hope you 'll like some of them for your own nearest and dearest . |