Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [coord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What 's the other reason we want er a nice separation distance between ourselves and the vehicle in front for ?
2 But especially Peter let's let's think about people like ourselves and the kind of work we do .
3 ‘ Are n't we lucky to have met and to have this whole day to ourselves and the sea and the sky , ’ Rose said enthusiastically .
4 To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship .
5 Surely we should not cease to remind ourselves and the world in general that the use of language is deeply political .
6 These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us .
7 It enables us to understand and evaluate ourselves and the world we live in .
8 It tells us what we need to know in order to understand ourselves and the world around us :
9 Colleagues , G M B Scotland welcomes and congratulates the Central Executive 's initiative in bringing forward the of this Congress the big important debate of this Congress between ourselves and the Transport and General Workers ' Union at some time in the future .
10 To do this , we must keep in trim , mobile and interested in ourselves and the community , on other words in life . ’
11 Er notice from the York City Council 's submission , there is a difference in opinion between ourselves and the county on the calculation of housing requirement for the City of York .
12 It was a critical struggle — a battle of wits between ourselves and the Lufwaffe with the edge always in favour of the Germans .
13 In London , even if a case were delayed because a witness had not presented himself or the judge was ill , there was always plenty of work waiting for her in chambers .
14 It is clear from the judgments in the Camborne and Barnsley cases that the disapproval of the reasonable suspicion test is because the court believes that it will have to view the answer from the perspective of the applicant himself or the public generally .
15 LIFESPAN will perform this check during the approval process , but it is worthwhile knowing that it can also be performed by the user , thus avoiding any inconvenience to himself or the approver .
16 The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church .
17 SPAR 's reasoner would look for explanations for either the dog or the vet biting himself or the other .
18 When Pip meets Miss Havisham and Estella he is no longer happy with himself or the way in which he lives and becomes very self-critical , he then tries to find contentment with money and becoming a gentleman but this fails .
19 Many and varied reasons have been put forward for this basic element of practice , but they can be summarized under three headings : ideological reasons ( the right of a person to decide for himself or the recognition of this as an existential reality ) , educational and developmental reasons ( participation as part of human growth and development , for the individual , the family , the group , the organization or the community ) , and political reasons ( participation as a means to enfranchisement and empowerment , an antidote to alienation ) ( Ross , 1960 ; Bernstein , 1960 ; Katan , 1980 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; Rothman , 1989 ) .
20 In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) .
21 Shocked and exhausted by the severity of the work and his illness , he had spoken little of himself or the family he had left behind in the north .
22 The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance .
23 The salesperson should open with a smile , a handshake and , in situations where he or she is not well known to the buyer , introduce himself and the company he represents .
24 A curious picture was forming in his mind — of a long thread of cotton with the black slaves on one end and himself and the rest of the children on the other .
25 It is a remark that effectively sums up the difference between himself and the rest of the band .
26 Hall gave a short history of the competition and asked Tite to move for the publication of the correspondence between himself and the Treasury , so that ‘ the public will then see all that has taken place ’ .
27 The composer sang the principal part himself and the accompaniment was played on a chitarrone .
28 During the course of the election campaign the King had criticized the aims of the pro-democracy dissidents , claiming that it was only himself and the nobility who were keeping Tonga free from communism .
29 Willi beamed , righted himself and the basket , keeping one hand lightly on the edge to balance it , and rubbed some pollen from the shoulder of his overcoat .
30 Fearing he 'd soon lose control of his functions , he pulled the letter to Estabrook from his pocket , and leaned forward to slide the half-window between himself and the driver aside .
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