Example sentences of "for [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Alec Reid firmed down a new pipeful of tobacco , ‘ I might ha ’ made a name for meself had I remained in Edinburgh .
2 He noticed that he was being drawn into making the decision by the ‘ we ’ ; and so he said , ‘ Well , speakin' for meself , it would sicken me if I thought the young 'un got into his hands . ’
3 At the orphanage I was complimented on me English composition , but I 've always been a bit shy about speakin' up for meself . ’
4 ‘ I 'm just goin' to make one for meself . ’
5 Personally , I 'm speaking for meself , not everybody could have had the jobs .
6 ‘ I figured it out for meself , Mam . ’
7 ‘ as if I could n't see for meself .
8 For meself , I could never see what 's in guitar playing . ’
9 The three things that came out of yesterday for meself were the the Aldershot method the delivery .
10 At other times you will need to define the task for yourself-to get background information on a new topic ? to research an essay question ? to discover what the historian feels about a particular problem/person/event ? to have a quiet read ?
11 By far the best service that can now be done to these pubs , both for ourselves and future generations , is to leave well alone .
12 But we will speak up for ourselves . ’
13 We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm .
14 True independence and self-determination come from recognising that we not only have responsibility for ourselves , but also obligations to others .
15 But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk .
16 Social background may not matter much now ( but until they publish the list we can not judge this for ourselves ) , but the 100 per cent increase in party professionals getting on the list and getting elected to Parliament between 1979 and 1987 can not , surely , be just coincidence ?
17 It is inevitable and right that if we are to make God real for ourselves we must , to a considerable degree , speak of Him in human terms , which is what the Bible does when it speaks of Him as repenting , changing His mind , being provoked or made angry or sorrowful .
18 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 .
19 ‘ We are arguing not just for ourselves , but also for our younger brothers and sisters — and perhaps our own children . ’
20 One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves .
21 He recalls , without explicit statement ( though their letters affirm it ) , the way in which he and Helen interwove poetry with their own voyages of mutual discovery : We treat them [ poems ] as parts written for ourselves to act , in the spirit , as they were written by the poet , in the spirit .
22 For one thing , all knowledge is explicable on the basis of the abilities we have to find it for ourselves .
23 An ecological reform of our societies will need to take into account , therefore , the compatibility of our innovations as much for our habitat as for ourselves .
24 To some degree we must all find the system best for ourselves , but let me tell you what I do .
25 Indeed , here is a reminder that Christmas can only be understood in the light of later events , can only be discovered in all its wonderful freshness and life when we discover for ourselves that Jesus is the human face of God .
26 I believe that for some of us there 's the need to possess for ourselves that inner conviction and excitement that is a mark of New Testament Christianity .
27 ‘ We would never ‘ ave to buy food for ourselves if I half-poisoned all your stupid little fans , ’ she said .
28 ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) .
29 As its days go by , we are left to imagine for ourselves Sarah 's anxiety .
30 We can see that a horse 's physical needs , like food , will affect not only its health , but also its emotions ; and we can see , too , that denial of the horse 's psychological needs will only make life more difficult for ourselves .
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