Example sentences of "[vb past] it for himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | I coined it but my good friend Will Shakespeare seized it for himself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 5 | When he did it for himself , the law jailed him |
| 6 | Naturally , Mozart wrote it for himself to play . |
| 7 | And , since Rachmaninov wrote it for himself to play , it demands a tremendous technique from the soloist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) . |