Example sentences of "[verb] to [pn reflx] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truly happy life has the resources of a great river that flows endlessly , bringing strength and hope to ourselves and to others . |
| 2 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 3 | There was a stack of crumpled brown paper , some of it addressed to herself and to Edward or Louise and bearing injunctions about not opening before Christmas ; she recognised the handwriting of aunts and godmothers . |
| 4 | You have declined to give police details of your account for reasons that are best known to yourself and in my view the only inference I can draw from that is that you have the money at least to pay a fine . ’ |
| 5 | Only a year ago the Shah had seemed to himself and to his allies to be utterly secure . |
| 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 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 | I think I 'll say to yourself and to Bill , students in future |
| 9 | He wanted to prove to himself and to others this sort of crime could be successfully committed . |