Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [conj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As adults , we face the fact that our charming sympathetic introduction to animals becomes more complicated and that we are not fair to ourselves or to the animals if we identify with them . |
| 2 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |
| 3 | We are sure that the exercise will prove beneficial both to ourselves and to the individuals who undertake the unit . |
| 4 | ‘ Probably using a VT detonator to give an air burst over the target , ’ he murmured , more to himself than to the Staff Sergeant . |
| 5 | He had to justify himself somehow , both to himself and to the public . |
| 6 | His prose too is highly mannered in both his Latin and his English treatises ; it calls attention to itself and to the writer in striking contrast to the calm , lucid prose of our other mystics , who are all careful to make it clear that their word is not law but only their own opinion . |
| 7 | ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history . |
| 8 | She pulled the cold embroidered spaces of satin kimono closer to her and pressed her back into the wire of the fender before she drew the basket , full of wounded dog , nearer to herself and to the heat — the little bitch trembled amongst all her luxuries . |
| 9 | By accident , they contained something unknown to myself or to the chemist that prepared them . |
| 10 | I KILLED little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general . |
| 11 | Er but I unbeknownst to myself and near the end it was a sales manager that had a team of men under me and you know and things like that . |
| 12 | The last time I was offered them was at a Free Kirk soiree and I was careful to keep my fingers to myself until after the Grace . |
| 13 | As the universe aged , the slightly over-dense areas left by inflation would draw dark matter to themselves because of the force of gravity . |
| 14 | Doctors whose work brings them into contact with detainees owe it to themselves and to the detainee to take the trouble to make a special study of the subject and undertake further training . |
| 15 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 16 | Perhaps if I start by saying that er I have er produced a one page summary which was n't with my er initial statements , which I passed to Mr and to Mr , but if I could er pass copies of that to yourself and to the panel . |
| 17 | ‘ People got married with the same sense of cultural duty that people today ( often the same people ) get divorced , ’ according to the novelist Malcolm Bradbury , ‘ You owed it to yourself and to the times … |
| 18 | If you do nothing about those feelings , the recipient will probably be totally unaware of them ; if you translate them into action , you may well be setting in motion a train of events which will cause harm and destruction , bringing as much grief to yourself as to the object of your ill-will . |