Example sentences of "[prep] others " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking after others , children or adults , was little Miss Fogerty 's chief source of pleasure . |
| 2 | Behind the little girl who was so good at looking after others was another little girl longing to be looked after herself . |
| 3 | Loss of personal identity through looking after others . |
| 4 | Many women feel that they should not have any needs and spend all their time looking after others , juggling time and not fulfilling their own needs . |
| 5 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 6 | ‘ With the current desk delivery some people are getting their copy a week after others . |
| 7 | ‘ With the current desk delivery some people are getting their copy a week after others . |
| 8 | I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses . |
| 9 | Because of the policies of this regime , such as the unreasonable animosity towards others and the violations of human rights , all the intelligent people have gone away . ’ |
| 10 | Poverty is also a means of increasing our sensitivity towards others . |
| 11 | Ideology provides the justification and politics the means for shifts in economic outcomes — redistribution of income and wealth away from some sectors and groups towards others . |
| 12 | Parents of aggressive teenagers , on the other hand , tolerate no aggressive displays whatsoever in the home , but condone , indeed , actively encourage and reinforce , provocation and aggressive actions towards others in the community . |
| 13 | towards others |
| 14 | towards others |
| 15 | To be honourable towards others when none have treated you with honour . |
| 16 | He seeks less of his own company and moves more towards others than away from them . |
| 17 | You may meet those who are themselves unhappy , bitter , cynical , twisted and limited , who are likely to express these feelings in a destructive way , particularly in their attitudes towards others . |
| 18 | On the one hand , we were encouraged to be young ladies , polite , modest , and considerate towards others , especially those who belonged to the lower social orders . |
| 19 | Power that comes from who you are and how you represent yourself and behave towards others is highly contagious . |
| 20 | We wish to be seen as sensitive and considerate towards others . |
| 21 | Katie Jeffreys of the poisons unit at Guy 's Hospital , London , said : ‘ It seems to break down barriers and gives people a loving feeling towards others . |
| 22 | Otherwise resentments build up , and anger eventually consumes us with loathing , violent behaviour in words or actions , or destructive decisions towards others . |
| 23 | They are taught what our moral philosophy calls ‘ the other-regarding virtues ’ , those that enable one to take responsibility for one 's actions towards others ( see Overing 1985 ) . |
| 24 | This might create a balance in the day-to-day encounters of young people and carers between , on the one hand , issues concerned with the young person 's feelings and behaviour towards others and , on the other hand , the appreciation and learning of skills associated with a range of activities and interests . |
| 25 | Aggression then is what is predicated of those who act or intend to act aggressively towards others . |
| 26 | For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women . |
| 27 | But , instead of feeling sorry for yourself and resentful towards others , you should endeavour to find permanent solutions to problems that have overshadowed your day-to-day existence for some time . |
| 28 | Individual managers are likely to be predisposed to behaving in one predominant role , even though they may show tendencies towards others . |
| 29 | Even granted that the singular can include the plural , so that ‘ another ’ can include ‘ others , ’ a standing display is not necessarily displayed towards others . |
| 30 | In practice , the egalitarian individual always occupies a position in a well-defined hierarchy , and this position is repeatedly asserted by the way he behaves towards others and by the way the others react in response . |