Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case one could argue that I and Thou automatically imply We , since the two of us are sharing between ourselves the field of discourse . |
| 2 | We will know for ourselves the experience of God speaking through his written revelation to us . |
| 3 | From the architectural viewpoint the greatest importance of this site , now so excellently opened up and preserved , is that it has preserved for us a provincial Roman city at a certain point in time — A.D. 79 — so that we can see for ourselves the buildings in which such citizens of the empire lived . |
| 4 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 5 | I 've heard some solicitor say He 's a great believer in your looking after yourself the kids will understand . |
| 6 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 7 | Sometimes he even managed to keep for himself the little piece of cotton-wool that she soaked in perfume so that he could rub the henna stains from her skin . |
| 8 | He would never dare openly to disobey Smallfry , but he had learned to listen for every shift in her voice-tone and read for himself the most subtle variation in her smile . |
| 9 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 10 | Neville had defrauded the Crown by unlawfully taking for himself the dues for after-pannage , the agistment of cattle , and the escapes of beasts into forbidden enclosures in the forest . |
| 11 | He had imposed heavy and illegal exactions upon the forest dwellers , prevented the men of the royal demesnes from having their customary rights of housebote and haybote , and taken for himself the dues for escapes of cattle and other animals in the forest , which rightly belonged to the king . |
| 12 | Having discovered for himself the great value of reading good books , he gave his writings to his people . |
| 13 | He walked heroic distances through France , Switzerland , and Germany in the summer vacation of 1790 , discovering for himself the realities of France in the throes of revolution , and the sublimities of the Alps . |
| 14 | A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’ |
| 15 | Besides , Edouard should see for himself the vineyards and plantations there : they were doing well , Jean-Paul said proudly . |
| 16 | He had decided to investigate for himself the question of his mother 's land investments in Texas , the holdings her Wall Street advisers seemed so anxious she should sell — so anxious that Edouard was a little suspicious . |
| 17 | He would obey the papal command , but for himself the question in dispute was a matter of indifference . |
| 18 | He will then be able to see for himself the resignation , if not quiet contempt , with which his customers regard the service for which he and his managers must hold themselves fully accountable . |
| 19 | Clarifying for himself the " no " point or the " sticking " threshold prior to the negotiation is a critical part of the Profitboss 's strategy . |
| 20 | After a trial lasting five days he was eventually convicted , under count 1 , of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , contrary to section 16(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , in that he dishonestly obtained for himself the opportunity to earn remuneration in an office or employment as an accountant to a man called Burt , by falsely representing that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and held qualifications from the Institute of Marketing . |
| 21 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 22 | By leasing he could not only spread the payments , but either enjoy for himself the benefit of a 100 per cent tax write-off on the asset of the plane in the first year , or come to some arrangement with a financier , who would build the tax deduction into the price . |
| 23 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 24 | Best to put off even thought until he had seen for himself the place where murder had been done , and the victim who had suffered it . |
| 25 | It is not surprising to learn that Sutherland felt so in sympathy with Picasso 's Guernica and later regretted that , in 1945 , he had not observed for himself the concentration camps . |
| 26 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 27 | This he purchased by forming a small syndicate in 1897 , taking for himself the office of managing director . |
| 28 | There were some , like Henry Armstrong at the end of the century , who urged a ‘ heuristic ’ method of teaching in which the pupil would be helped to make for himself the discoveries of Newton , Lavoisier and Faraday . |
| 29 | On his return , Williams could now see for himself the changes that had taken place in the social and political structure of Trinidad and Tobago during his absence . |
| 30 | A clause inserted by Lord Muncaster reserved for himself the right " at any time during the said 21 yrs " , if he so wished , to become a " partner of ¼ in the concern " by paying a " full part of the expenses from the commencement thereof of working the same … " |