Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pn reflx] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
| 2 | The division managers must find ways to explain the existence of mixed messages to themselves and to their subordinates . |
| 3 | People with addictive disease may do terrible things to themselves and to others in the course of their illness . |
| 4 | The facts that they do fearful things to themselves and to others regardless of consequence and that they are unaware of the connection between cause and consequence are the essential psycho-pathological nature of addictive disease and denial . |
| 5 | During the first year of life children seem to become aware of objects and to realise that objects behave in quite different ways to themselves and to other people . |