Sentence examples for took for himself from inspiring English sources

Were they painkillers he took for himself?

Jeb took for himself only one strip of bacon, one dry piece of toast.

Much of the money went astray, including, says the prosecution, $24m that Mr Battikhi took for himself.

After the capture of Constantinople, Dandolo took for himself and the doges of Venice the title "lord of the fourth part and a half of the whole empire of Romania".

He never took Constantinople, although it was more than once at his mercy; but he took for himself the title of "Tsar of All the Bulgarians" (925) and raised the archbishop of Bulgaria to the rank of a patriarch.

When Standard Oil (Ohio) was established in 1870, Flagler drew up the papers and received 1,333 shares, just about half as many as the 2,667 shares that Rockefeller took for himself.

The chance to take for himself with the talent he'd developed.

He has handed executive authority back to the former president and taken for himself the job of prime minister.

Mr. Abbas is seeking to take for himself the portfolio of the interior ministry, which manages the security services, displacing Hani al-Hassan, a respected veteran of Fatah.

L'Hopital reminded Bernoulli that he was not to publish, but to send all his works to l'Hopital, who promised to keep them secret, asserting that he had no desire to take for himself the honor of these discoveries (Letter 42).

There are other allegations - that Redford takes for himself scripts brought for development at Sundance; that he is all "vision, no execution"; that he rejects what he sees as "commercial" projects favouring Americana.