Sentence examples for building for himself from inspiring English sources

The farmer could not believe his luck, imagining the magnificent palace he would very soon be building for himself.

Most other apartment houses on Park were speculative ventures, but Mr. Ecker was building for himself and at least one friend, Darwin Kingsley, head of New York Life.

The Insavaileovs live in Kibray, about a 25-minute drive from the capital, just past the new presidential palace Karimov is building for himself.

"I haven't seen the movie and I probably won't until I can borrow a copy of the video," Leonard said last week from the small home he is building for himself in western Vermont.

Few Namibians are given an opportunity to play professionally – "I think there are four of us at the moment: three in France, and me," he says – and he would consider it a betrayal of his own good fortune to complain about the sporting career he is building for himself here.

Bob asked to see the derelict building for himself and he became convinced of the case - perhaps mindful of the rate at which the price of Clerkenwell properties were rising and figuring this was a sound investment as well as a exciting and worthwhile cause.

Obote had relied heavily on the loyalty of Idi Amin, but Amin had been building support for himself within the army by recruiting from his own Kakwa ethnic group in the northwest.

"It's interesting how it all came together," said Shishkov, who started his career building guitars for himself, in a small underground cinder block workshop in the Soviet Union, which frowned on its citizens making any product the Soviet government didn't make and approve.

Mr. Suzuki, for example, was forced to acknowledge rigging bids on large government-backed construction projects, some of which resulted in buildings named for himself in his native Hokkaido, and in Africa, reflecting his reputed influence on foreign aid spending.

Hochtief also constructed buildings for Hitler himself, notably his Bavarian Alpine retreat, the Berghof, his Wolf's Lair headquarters in Rastenburg, and the Führerbunker in Berlin, where Hitler ultimately committed suicide.

I mean, people are starving in the world, and he's building a mansion for himself.