Example sentences of "[verb] to himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in what seemed a particularly unconventional technique at the time , Michel Butor , in La Modification ( 1957 ) , employs a second-person narrative as a means , apparently , of voicing the monologue which Léon Delmont is conducting with himself as he travels from Paris to Rome to join his mistress , explaining to himself the history of his affair and anticipating how it will resolve itself . |
| 2 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |
| 3 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 4 | The pope applied to himself the words of Christ , ‘ He that heareth you heareth me ’ . |
| 5 | Because — no harm in saying it once again — this is the essence of the private-eye novel : that its hero actively goes out and grabs to himself the facts that he needs . |
| 6 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 7 | ‘ He was highly strung , easily depressed , ’ he said , ‘ but used to go round the theatre chanting to himself the words — which I believe he learned from Frank Finlay , who played his father in the play — ’ I must be resilient , resilient ! ’ |
| 8 | Why does he arrogate to himself the claim to know more about patient care than all those professionals ? |
| 9 | He grinned to himself a little and thought , you cagey bastard . |
| 10 | Robert Kilroy-Silk claims that Bryan Gould ‘ has arrogated to himself the exclusive right to speak for southern England middle income groups . ’ |
| 11 | In Ellis v. John Stenning & Son A sold land to B , reserving to himself the right to cut and sell the uncut timber on the land . |
| 12 | Doyle , for instance , thinks to himself a Scottish thought : ‘ Would his grandparents ever have had sexual activity in the parlour ? ’ |
| 13 | So , at the point when the meditator ends in prayer that he may always keep this passion in mind , he presents to himself an image which might easily coincide with that on a rood-screen , or painted panel . |
| 14 | He would smile to himself every time he heard this as they came to sign their contracts . |
| 15 | He who binds to himself a joy |
| 16 | A director was precluded from diverting to himself a maturing business opportunity which his company was actively pursuing even after his resignation where the resignation was prompted or influenced by a desire to acquire that opportunity for himself . |
| 17 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 18 | Wistfully , Jaq quoted to himself the words of an ancient leader of the middle kingdom on bygone Earth : ‘ In the land of a thousand million people , what does the death of one million of these count in the cause of purity ? ’ |