Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] both " in BNC.

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1 But , avidly staring , he persuaded himself into both the disappointment and the relief of recognizing that the girl possessed the kind of grace or innate innocence which made it very unlikely — no , impossible ! filthily impossible ! — that her young breasts and thighs were commodities available for temporary hire .
2 Criticism of the Irish constitution itself from both clergy and laity produced one first change in the constitution .
3 Between the embarrassment of frank sleaziness , the vicious campaigns of Il Sabato against Mr De Mita ( then a serving prime minister ) and the evidence of its own eyes , the Italian church began distancing itself from both Communion and Liberation and Mr Sbardella .
4 The nascent Welsh revival has been sparked by a pack at last able to impose itself upon both the French and the Irish .
5 Commissioned in May of 1986 , this vessel has distinguished herself in both the U.S. and European cruising circuits .
6 If the therapist had approached the problem in this way she may well have avoided alienating herself from both the patient and her parents and thereby becoming largely ineffective .
7 In several talks given by myself in both English and Burmese , I tried to emphasise the part which Buddhism could play in the national life .
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