Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 2 | For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line . |
| 3 | For reasons best known to himself Carr kicked the legs from under Murray , leaving referee Brian White with no option but to order him off . |
| 4 | The one in particular I 'm referring to you will see we 'd all see the Son of Man , they they 'd recognised that reference to himself Son of Man , they 'd recognised that because that comes out of the Old Testament Book of Daniel does n't it , the Son of Man seated on the right hand of the Almighty coming with the clouds of heaven . |
| 5 | In the latter case the offender does appropriate the property because , although the owner has handed over possession by consent ( which was obtained by deception ) , he has not transferred the property ( that is , the ownership ) and the offender , intending to deprive the owner permanently of his property , appropriates it , not by taking possession , but by the unilateral act , adverse to the owner , of treating as his own and taking to himself property of which he was merely given possession . |
| 6 | And in its attempts to obey , the Anglican branch had evolved ad hoc , adding to itself bits and pieces to meet needs it thought it perceived . |
| 7 | There is a return to the balance of antiquity when peripheral Spain — especially Mediterranean Spain — attracted to itself population , activity and production . ’ |
| 8 | Baldwin , with a glowering Churchill beside him and uncertain followers behind him , took the opportunity to pay a notable tribute to the Viceroy and to end it on a curious note , half petulant , half menacing : ‘ I will only add that if ever the day comes when the party which I lead ceases to attract to itself men of the calibre of Edward Wood , then I have finished with my party . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll be in touch , ’ he said vaguely and though it was a long time before she would admit it to herself Sally knew it was all over . |
| 10 | Still , even when I was young ’ — she was talking as if to herself now-'I could see no reason to stay up just because a date was changing , starting all over again , one , two , three , four , five . |
| 11 | For left to herself Nature can seem unruly and overwhelming . |
| 12 | I 'll have these Freshers all the way down the side near that erm middle wall , thought to myself wonder what I could have done there that will look pretty |
| 13 | Well I rang you just in case you know I do n't want yo how we need the money so I thought to myself Cornwall , twenty eight ? |
| 14 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 15 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 16 | ‘ A thing happened to myself Stevie , last autumn , coming on winter and I never told it to a living soul . |
| 17 | I shall have to talk to myself Jonathan ! |
| 18 | Governments should not be deluded into thinking that they can arrogate to themselves powers that they do not and can not possess . |
| 19 | Federalism in its German form betrays a highly teleological view of politics , and its theorists arrogate to themselves assumptions and imperatives which are at best matters for the Church , but can never be pronounced on by politicians . |
| 20 | Preparation for day care transport was sometimes an important role because , if left to themselves clients might either not be ready in time , or might be ready too soon and while waiting go out to do something else ( forgetting that transport was due ) ; in either case they would consequently miss their transport and therefore their day care . |
| 21 | Are you saying that to yourself rope , hope ? |
| 22 | Might as well talk to yourself Iris . |
| 23 | You can justify the most absurd extravagance to yourself Saturday for your line of reasoning defies logic and is a law unto itself . |
| 24 | That not just a question to yourself Mr Brighton , others may wish to comment later . |
| 25 | One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements . |