Example sentences of "it for themselves " in BNC.
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1 | Now they 've got to do it for themselves . |
2 | Even Samuel Montagu had said the purpose of the Crown Suppliers was to provide for departments more efficiently than they could do it for themselves or from any other source . |
3 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
4 | Everyone knows that , and the Israelites discovered it for themselves in the wilderness . |
5 | There are , of course , civil and legal reasons for this , but it also serves the purpose of confirming to the person that their relative has actually died because they have seen it for themselves , the proof is before them . |
6 | If they have not seen it for themselves then it can not be true . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | We should be clear about what ‘ allowing market mechanisms and incentives to do their job ’ means — the consolidation of the two-thirds society ; the perpetuation of the spiral of poverty , by which we are now seeing a generation of young adults emerging whose parents have never known regular employment , and who no longer expect — or even seek — it for themselves ; the creation of a permanent underclass , its anger turned in upon itself , its hope for the future devoured in poverty , crime , violence and despair . |
10 | They should read the report and find it for themselves . |
11 | Rawlplug fixings : Williams Holdings doing it for themselves |
12 | The Institute should be sponsoring its own research in this area and encouraging UK companies to try it for themselves . |
13 | The word ‘ feminist ’ , for instance , is a disputed term even within the group of people that claim it for themselves . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |
16 | And the old problem remained that skilled men would neither be given suitable work nor time to seek it for themselves . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | What knowledge is needed can not be specified in advance ; people must develop it for themselves , must assess it , and must communicate it . |
19 | And you might say well I 'll not take their advice I 'll invest it directly with Global and you 'll find that cos Global 'll keep it for themselves . |
20 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
21 | The players knew it for themselves . |
22 | WE ARE The Men are six women , stronger on dialectic than musical ability , doing it for themselves . |
23 | They have no idea what " normal " is and therefore they invent it for themselves and may be very wide of the mark that other families set for themselves . |
24 | Faced with this lack of clarity in the law , the police have been left to some extent to interpret it for themselves . |
25 | Put another way , the more the teacher is explicit about what behaviour is wanted , the less opportunity the pupils have to come to it for themselves and make the underlying knowledge or understanding their own . |
26 | If I want pupils to become aware of a generality , the more I guide them , the less chance they have of really appreciating it for themselves . |
27 | 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 . ’ |
28 | ‘ Many British and American tourists feel that they have connections with some part of Scottish history and they want to experience it for themselves . ’ |
29 | Michael was already there ; he sensed their disappointment when they saw him , they had wanted it for themselves . |
30 | I do n't have to preach or tell our colleagues in England and Wales the effects water privatization 's had on them since nineteen eighty nine , they can see it for themselves every day . |