Example sentences of "it for [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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31 Try it for yourself , see where it gets you .
32 is called we that 's the question read it for yourself !
33 Because what 's the point in doing no matter how good you think you 're doing , what 's the point of doing it for yourself in the living room , you want er everybody to listen to it .
34 Well you 'll soon have it for yourself , I wo n't do it !
35 Read it for yourselves ; — Moses , brought to a halt in front of the Red Sea , with the Egyptians thundering over the horizon to destroy him , and the Israelites in rebellion , gives that word to his people .
36 Have a look at it , read it for yourselves .
37 Well — he would not , and the laird turned him out for it — he turned him out and sent him off and we have had no land since and he put nobody else into Upper Farrochil — he only wanted it for himself .
38 He had to see it for himself .
39 He refused professional tuition because he felt there must be a better way to play golf and he must find it for himself .
40 Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper were to co-star and Nicholson wrote a part in it for himself but Corman refused to cast him and Bruce Dern played the role instead .
41 Now Mallius Seneca , who says he is the uncle of Seius Oceanus , is claiming the property on the ground of proximity , but Maximus claims it for himself since the person to whom he was asked to restore it has died .
42 When he did it for himself , the law jailed him
43 They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus .
44 More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist .
45 He did it because he was intoxicated by it : and he had found it for himself .
46 There was n't too much to tell , and after Rutherford had finished he would leave the American in the room with the file and let him gut it for himself .
47 John Sculley at Apple Computer Inc is another name that has been canvassed , and he is the exception that proves the rule that an outsider ca n't run a computer company , but he came in fascinated by the business and devoted all his efforts in the early days learning about it for himself rather than relying on his minions , something no-one taking over IBM now has time to do .
48 One might remark that the working-class child considered it redundant to constantly refer to the presence of a picture since he knew that the researcher was present and could see it for himself .
49 The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental .
50 Elfman used to boast to anyone who would listen that he was able to auto-fellate with the minimum of effort , making him the envy of every young buck who had tried it for himself and only succeeded in collapsing with a racking backache .
51 He was even capable of finding some credit in it for himself : for after all , it proved that he did not have to take every apparently unprotected woman who came into his sights .
52 But she , watching him , was surprised that he had n't seen it for himself .
53 It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself .
54 An ordinary sailor had won this bounty , yet when the expedition returned Columbus claimed it for himself ( the dove still elbowing the raven from history ) .
55 Imparting some factual information but more commonly referring the sufferer to resources from which he or she may find it for himself or herself .
56 The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero .
57 He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) .
58 when he , when they do discover it , when he does discover it for himself , he thinks , hey , I can do this and I invented this myself .
59 But he had designed and built it for himself .
60 Do n't tell George : he 'll be jealous he had n't thought of it for himself .
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