Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [pn reflx] " 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 | For one thing , all knowledge is explicable on the basis of the abilities we have to find it for ourselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , sir , I would , and before you dismiss that story , I 'd like to take you out there to hear it for yourself . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Many British and American tourists feel that they have connections with some part of Scottish history and they want to experience it for themselves . ’ |
| 10 | Now they 've got to do it for themselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 14 | She was never left to do it for herself . |
| 15 | Faced with this lack of clarity in the law , the police have been left to some extent to interpret it for themselves . |
| 16 | The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ And you immediately scented a mystery and set out to solve it for yourself ! ’ said Sophie in a voice of triumph . |
| 18 | She would have liked to know just which passages in the book her hostess found objectionable , but it was plain that the only way to find out was to study it for herself . |
| 19 | We are familiar with the spectacle of its loss , in pre-war Germany , for example , and in present-day Russia and China ; and so we are the more determined to preserve it for ourselves . |
| 20 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
| 21 | Writing time is your time ; you need to claim it for yourself , often against the demands of other people . |
| 22 | He had to see it for himself . |
| 23 | But I 'd like to see it for myself . |
| 24 | It was to convince Karen , partly , that she 'd wanted her to come and have a holiday , to see it for herself . |
| 25 | And the old problem remained that skilled men would neither be given suitable work nor time to seek it for themselves . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Would n't it buy something for the girls here or put someone through school even if you did n't want to take it for yourself ? |
| 28 | It assumes that you need to organize it for yourself rather than expecting other people to be responsible for your development . |
| 29 | then you can go to indirect pressure and try to control the flow of bleeding by using indeed direct pressure , away from the wound , but where an artery , okay , is running near a bone , so you can compress the artery against the bone squash it hard , and for the arm you 'd use this one under here called the breaking now press , move your biceps muscle away and press underneath there , you can perhaps try to feel it for yourself , did you do that this morning or not ? |