Example sentences of "[verb] it for himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Mosse had wanted to be dead there , and since he could n't achieve it for himself , his clothes had done it for him . |
| 2 | But he had designed and built it for himself . |
| 3 | But she , watching him , was surprised that he had n't seen it for himself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 8 | More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He did it because he was intoxicated by it : and he had found it for himself . |
| 11 | He was n't just doing it for himself any more . ’ |
| 12 | Has he ever tried to push a wheelchair and try it for himself ? |
| 13 | I coined it but my good friend Will Shakespeare seized it for himself . |
| 14 | The Chronicle C text records that in 1028 Cnut sailed from England to Norway with fifty ships ; D and E add that he drove Olaf away and took it for himself . |
| 15 | He had to see it for himself . |
| 16 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When he did it for himself , the law jailed him |
| 19 | Naturally , Mozart wrote it for himself to play . |
| 20 | And , since Rachmaninov wrote it for himself to play , it demands a tremendous technique from the soloist . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) . |
| 23 | Gollum can not now resist grabbing it for himself , he succeeds but leans too far and falls into the Cracks of Doom taking the Ring with him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He refused professional tuition because he felt there must be a better way to play golf and he must find it for himself . |
| 26 | Imparting some factual information but more commonly referring the sufferer to resources from which he or she may find it for himself or herself . |