Example sentences of "[prep] itself and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
| 2 | It is believed that this force is carried by another spin-I particle , called the gluon , which interacts only with itself and with the quarks . |
| 3 | Aboriginal life was once in balance with itself and with the world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |