Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And part of the mystery of our existence , is if they we If we give ourselves in faith to God , even in the small and inauspicious ways , the consequences of doing that might be enormous . |
| 2 | In an ideal world , If we all became truly aware of ourselves in relation to others , there would be no need for greed or violence — but we are still far from our ideal world . |
| 3 | These assumptions about ourselves in relation to others are called life positions because they tend to dictate the positions we take up throughout life . |
| 4 | The Bible tells us how to conduct ourselves in relation to God and to our fellow men . |
| 5 | ‘ We all have to think of ourselves from time to time , do n't we ? ’ |
| 6 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 7 | Now what do you reckon is the most difficult … the most dangerous job in sport … boxer … jump jockey … racing driver you could argue all night could n't you … what about a chap who has to protect himself from head to foot … gets fired at … and skates on ice … in other words the netminder in ice hockey … see for yourself in our Friday Feature |
| 8 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 9 | He spat the stuff from his lips , then began the long difficult scramble up the hillside , hauling himself from tree to tree by clinging to the network of roots growing above ground . |
| 10 | Backwards , raising himself from step to step on his backside . |
| 11 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |
| 12 | On 5 April 1329 Isabella and Mortimer appointed as Justice of the Forest south of Trent Sir John Maltravers , who had been one of the gaolers , and probably one of the murderers of Edward II : when Edward III assumed personal authority in the following year , Maltravers saved himself by flight to France . |
| 13 | After the Civil War , the Bolshevik party had recreated itself in response to events ; it was virtually a new organization . |
| 14 | The way in which a municipality legislates and the way in which it administers the legislation it enacts and conducts itself in relation to activities which it lawfully undertakes can not but create a municipal reputation , be it good , bad or indifferent . |
| 15 | More , the fact that this being , Homo sapiens , is from the moment of birth aware of itself in relation to others , and experiences and defines itself in such a relational mode , suggests the universal , pre-cultural basis of a relational concept that appears to occur in one form or another in all human cultural systems : the complementarity of Self and Other ; Us and Them . |
| 16 | An identical picture presents itself in relation to police response to domestic and sexual attack . |
| 17 | It is often a matter of history repeating itself from generation to generation and , under this Government , even within a single generation . |
| 18 | But as she waited an obstinately persistent sound filled her head , drove itself from ear to ear , settled over her eyes and seeped through to fill the whole arena of her cranium . |
| 19 | In reality , it is a social and economic problem which is not fixed to a particular geographical space but which can transfer itself from place to place if it is not tackled at its source . |
| 20 | The management prides itself on attention to detail and offers a bar and a dining-room which extends onto a large verandah with beautiful views . |
| 21 | Some other option than putting herself in debt to DeVore ? |
| 22 | She wore jeans and a sweatshirt that night — and then felt foolish because she knew he would realise instantly why she was covering herself from head to toe . |
| 23 | Now have another drink , then get yourself off home to bed . |
| 24 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 25 | Congress , there 's a very familiar phrase which is often used in the English language , a phrase which many of you may have used yourselves from time to time . |
| 26 | An indirect role where the teacher creates the conditions which will allow the children to initiate collaborative activities themselves in response to interests , purposes and needs arising from their activities . |
| 27 | In our culture women typically conceptualise themselves in relation to others ; discussion of the implications of this can be found in several of the papers ( Alison Assiter , Lorraine Code , Jean Grimshaw and Judith Hughes ) . |
| 28 | Douglas McGregor , in his book The Human Side of Enterprise , discussed the way in which managers see themselves in relation to others . |
| 29 | Here , Linda Parker looks at a range of beauty products that you can use at home to pamper yourself from head to toe |
| 30 | It is almost impossible to stand up , and you haul yourself from building to building , from stanchion to stanchion as if on board a ship rounding the Horn in a nor'wester . |