Example sentences of "[pn reflx] and 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is a remark that effectively sums up the difference between himself and the rest of the band . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | The composer sang the principal part himself and the accompaniment was played on a chitarrone . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was a question of survival , both of himself and the operation . |
| 23 | A typical court order ( in this case the matrimonial home being in the husband 's sole name ) might be as follows : It is ordered that the Respondent do transfer the property known as 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre , to himself and the Petitioner ( or to other trustees ) to hold the same as to 60% for himself and as to 40% for the Petitioner . |
| 24 | Even in such an early case as Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 the plaintiffs abandoned a claim based on an express restraint because , as Lord Atkinson said , the clause prevented the defendant using " … in the service of some other employer that skill and knowledge which he had acquired by the exercise of his own mental faculties on what he had seen , heard , and had experience of in … employment … " ( see also Leng ( Sir WC ) & Co Ltd v Andrews [ 1909 ] 1 Ch 763 where it was held , inter alia , that the defendant was entitled to use his acquired skill and knowledge for the benefit of himself and the benefit of the public who gained the advantage of him having had such admirable instruction ) . |
| 25 | These youth cliques , with picturesque names like Edelweisspiraten or , based on their taste in music , Swing , were regarded as a political menace by the regime , and for the most part their behaviour did contain a distinct political dimension — rejection of the Party , the Hitler Youth , the regime , and the Führer himself and the lack of freedom and dull uniformity which his rule represented . |
| 26 | A salaried partner 's position must be made explicit , in the interests both of himself and the firm . |
| 27 | If the memoirs of a Mr. J. Stanley Todd are to be believed , the employers first became aware of such a plan as a result of a chance encounter between himself and the union 's solicitor , presumably the " long-faced " Thomas Watson Brown , on the ferry between North and South Shields . |
| 28 | Will the Minister commit himself and the Government to the development of the coal industry in Scotland and say more about the Government 's intentions for Monktonhall , lest Yorkshire face the same problems as Scotland , as the Bishop of Durham made clear this weekend ? |
| 29 | Now , without a rope to restrain him , he put as great a distance as possible between himself and the man . |
| 30 | The editor of the who published photographs of the Princess of Wales exercising at a gym has described himself and the man who took the photographs as ratbags . |