Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pn reflx] and [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She may even do this by denying the bad experiences in her marriage to herself and to others , remembering only the good times , however few they were , and concentrating her thoughts on the positive aspects of her husband 's personality .
2 But if they are not spotted early in their training , they can be a real menace to themselves and to their instructors .
3 Put into precise terms , one can say that , in clinical and applied psychoanalysis , the individualistic fallacy alleges that the individual 's Oedipus complex is wholly explicable by reference to himself and to his family situation , without regard to the history of that complex or to the origins of the family and of human psychological structures as a whole .
4 an event that caused considerable anxiety to himself and to his girlfriend ( patient E22 ) who was P cepacia-negative .
5 And out of the crowd came this man who knelt before Jesus and pleaded for mercy for his son , an epileptic , who suffered terribly , was a danger to himself and to others .
6 During the revolutionary period in France , following the fall of Louis Philippe in 1848 , Buddicom struggled valiantly to keep the railway in operation despite considerable physical danger to himself and to his family .
7 It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar .
8 His prose too is highly mannered in both his Latin and his English treatises ; it calls attention to itself and to the writer in striking contrast to the calm , lucid prose of our other mystics , who are all careful to make it clear that their word is not law but only their own opinion .
9 Being gay for me meant identifying with people who were of a similar age to myself and with a particular way of dressing .
10 That we have an obligation to ourselves and to others , to ensure everyone receives justice .
11 I should become bad , selfish , a curse to myself and to all who knew me .
12 Individuals develop a sense of worth to themselves and to others by the ways in which people treat them and their communities .
13 I have a duty to myself and to my reader to express what follows with truth and dignity .
14 The students ( all over 18 years of age ) chose a topic of interest to themselves and of potential use to others The students ' aim was to produce a database and they were thus involved in skills of defining their information needs , planning methods of acquiring information , and assessing the information needs of the users of the database .
15 An understanding of the complexities of both components of communicating is likely to help people to carry which is effective and brings satisfaction to themselves and to others .
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