Example sentences of "[pron] and [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tend to take plants for granted , seeing them as just another aspect of the environment and failing to appreciate the vital service which they perform both for ourselves and for all other living creatures on this planet . |
| 2 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 3 | Finally , Step V " Admitted to God , to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs " involves a lengthy ( usually several hours ) session with another human-being ( commonly a clergyman , specifically trained to be non-judgemental and non-denominational in the process , but sometimes a counsellor or some -other person ) to rid one 's self of the continuing sole burden of shame and guilt . |
| 4 | He wanted to know what had happened , wanted to understand the dynamics of the situation and to store it away as part of his constantly changing , growing understanding of himself and of those around him . |
| 5 | For example , the two competing public interests in employment cases are : ( a ) a person should be held to his promise ; and ( b ) every person should be free to exercise his skill and experience to the best advantage of himself and of those who may want to employ him ( see Lord Atkinson in Morris ( Herbert ) v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 ) . |
| 6 | All over the world , mystics had told the adept that he must die to himself and to all that he knows ; he must experience annihilation and extinction , which the Sufis call 'fana . |
| 7 | He is indeed more object than subject , both to himself and to those among whom he has arrived . |
| 8 | The original edition in 1960 , ended the story in 1880 ; the new edition , revised and rewritten by Dr Leslie Hunt , brings the story up to date in all senses , relying on original historical research by Hunt himself and by many contributors to Johnson Matthey 's journal Platinum Metals Review ( founded 1957 ) , and on Hunt 's knowledge of modern industry It is lavishly illustrated , partly in colour . |
| 9 | For me and for many , a personal relationship with Jesus started on a Venture ( they were called ‘ camps ’ in my day ! ) and attending and serving on a venture were valuable stepping stones towards greater Christian maturity . |
| 10 | All I know is that love , falling in it and out of it , and everything in between , is a fascinating subject to me and to many of my guests . |
| 11 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 12 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |
| 13 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 14 | We started off by having a shower together , which relaxed me and from that moment on there was a surprisingly intimate and friendly atmosphere . |
| 15 | So that changed me and after that it went from you know , higher and higher all the time , the more and we used to get . |
| 16 | If he expected me to break into tears and confess , then he was a good judge of character , but I had Dod to think about and Dod had a missus and kids and anyway was bigger than me and after all was a pretty good drummer . |
| 17 | ‘ I get lots of film synopses sent to me and after this movie I hope I will get a lot more . |
| 18 | Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In one way they are excited for me and in another they do n't want me to go , ’ he said . |
| 20 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 21 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 22 | I recognise them and with each recognition I take some comfort . |
| 23 | His extraordinary personal library of cuttings , plus his first-hand knowledge — ‘ I have been lucky enough now , of course , to be able to talk to them and to those who know them well , and to see inside their homes ’ — makes Vickers one of our foremost Royal watchers . |
| 24 | The audience gave a great cheer , recognizing that the actors were making fun of them and of each other . |
| 25 | Their high degree of competitiveness is a lesson both for British companies that compete with them and for all those who are looking for ways to sharpen their competitive edge . |
| 26 | ‘ I make men out of them and for that I 'm at fault . |
| 27 | Even now , disabled people find themselves in hospital because it is the only place that will look after them and for that reason alone . |
| 28 | For them and for some of the new workers of the industrial revolution in the Midlands and North , the acts brought an era of " secret unionism " . |
| 29 | The Soviet Union considered the essence of their proposals as an attempt to resolve the problems and differences in relations between the ASEAN and Indo-Chinese states ‘ by means of a direct dialogue between them and without any outside interference ’ . |
| 30 | Your Royal Highness , it is , it is , it is interesting that when I attended the Annual General Meeting last year of the Boats Organization , the fact that I said that yachtsmen was a Con Conservation Body as well surprised them and since that time we have having collaboration with them er more and more and this is to be welcomed because we all want to sail in nice surroundings . |