"keep for themselves" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to possess or hold onto something exclusively for one's own use or benefit. Example: The siblings always kept the cookies for themselves, rather than sharing them with their friends.
Those they could keep for themselves.
Which most of the airlines decided to keep for themselves under the principled theory that they could use the cash.
Eleven Romney aides "bought the hard drives of their state-issued computers to keep for themselves," Hosenball wrote.
At another point, prosecutors said that Mr. Weinig and his partners skimmed $2.4 million to keep for themselves.
And the retirees are furious that current players want to keep for themselves the money the league is offering under the cap.
The bulk of private equity executives' compensation comes in the form of carried interest, which is the 20 percent cut of a fund's profits they keep for themselves.
report enraged Fannie and Freddie because it also showed how much of that financial benefit — fully one-third — the companies kept for themselves, their managers and their stockholders.
The name of Quinto Quarto, a brick-walled osteria in Greenwich Village, refers to offal, the "fifth quarter" of the animal that Roman butchers kept for themselves.
They have already begun eyeing the money artists earn from concerts, sponsorships and the sale of merchandise, revenue that artists have so far kept for themselves.
Their Asia Week show is an anniversary "retrospective" of types of things they've bought, exhibited, sold and occasionally fallen in love with and kept for themselves.
Everyone keeps for themselves," Mrs. Miraj said of their voyage to America, where they remain subject to renewal of their parole status.
