Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for themselves " in BNC.
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1 | The Institute should be sponsoring its own research in this area and encouraging UK companies to try it for themselves . |
2 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
3 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
4 | As people became more intensely aware of the pleasures of beauty they wanted to create it for themselves and another new source of happiness was discovered . |
5 | Another scale of wholesale charges for unused equipment is also useful for people who like a particular product so much that they genuinely want to buy it for themselves , albeit at a preferential rate . |
6 | After all , this way they can extol its benefits woman-to-woman ; and that 's why the client wanted them to experience it for themselves . ’ |
7 | ‘ Many British and American tourists feel that they have connections with some part of Scottish history and they want to experience it for themselves . ’ |
8 | Now they 've got to do it for themselves . |
9 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
10 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
11 | Faced with this lack of clarity in the law , the police have been left to some extent to interpret it for themselves . |
12 | The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves . |
13 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
14 | And the old problem remained that skilled men would neither be given suitable work nor time to seek it for themselves . |
15 | We can use the power of narrative to intrigue and draw children into the work at the same time as teaching them about narrative ; teaching them how to manipulate it for themselves . |