Example sentences of "for himself by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a new young photographer , he was being given a great opportunity and he could have spoilt things for himself by using me . ’ |
| 2 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 3 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 4 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 5 | On balance , Williams probably gained more than he lost from his attempt to bring — and keep — together the separate traditions of Marxism and British cultural criticism , though as Parrinder has shown in a sensitive discussion of Williams , he made needless difficulties for himself by abandoning the concept of literature . |