Example sentences of "to himself [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lucky old me , ’ Mungo said , more to himself than to her . |
| 2 | Biff nodded , more to himself than to his companion . |
| 3 | ‘ If he hits me , ’ he said , more to himself than to her , ‘ Bejaysus , I 'll hit him back . ’ |
| 4 | When he spoke again , Marek reverted to that low , colourless tone of his , and spoke more to himself than to her . |
| 5 | Johnny continued to talk , more to himself than to her . |
| 6 | ‘ By gum ! ’ he expostulated , more to himself than to his sergeant or anybody else . |
| 7 | ‘ And I do n't have time to hear it , ’ he muttered , more to himself than to her . |
| 8 | ‘ Probably using a VT detonator to give an air burst over the target , ’ he murmured , more to himself than to the Staff Sergeant . |
| 9 | He tried to keep himself to himself but for years and years he had windows broken , excrement and rubbish was dumped in his garden and he would be woken in the early hours by children as young as 12 and 13 throwing stones at his window . |
| 10 | He tried to keep himself to himself but for years and years he had windows broken , excrement and rubbish was dumped in his garden and he would be woken in the early hours by children as young as 12 and 13 throwing stones at his window . |
| 11 | Yet , among its symptoms listed by Marx in his description of alienation , one — the fact that the work is not done for the worker but for someone else , that ‘ in his work he does not belong to himself but to another person … . |
| 12 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had not said to himself that in a marriage between two like this , someone was going to have to know a little less clearly what they had wanted . |
| 14 | The question Brenton appears to be asking , and it is surely as relevant to himself as to his characters , is how do you live after faith and hope have gone ? |
| 15 | ‘ It gives me a chance , ’ they heard him mutter , as much to himself as to Andrus . |
| 16 | Was he referring to himself or to her ? |
| 17 | She grasped both his hands and sank to her knees , pressing her lips to his fingers and whispering her thanks — though whether to himself or to God , he could not be sure , and was n't much interested . |
| 18 | A person commits the latter offence if he ‘ by any false pretence … with intent to defraud , obtains from any other person any chattel , money , or valuable security , or causes or procures any money to be paid , or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person . ’ |
| 19 | This is because the founder of such a body is entitled to reserve to himself or to a visitor whom he appoints the exclusive right to adjudicate upon the domestic laws which the founder has established for the regulation of his bounty . |
| 20 | Through self-discipline the student will learn to submerge his ego ; ultimately he will not feel the need to prove his worth , either to himself or to others . |
| 21 | The court stated : We were unanimously satisfied that the oral evidence , together with the documentation , established clearly that from the date on which ( the settlor ) purported to constitute the settlement he exercised dominion and control over the trustee in the management and administration of the settlement , including distributions of capital to himself or to others as gifts or loans , and the making and disposition of investments . |
| 22 | The first line is the voice of one man talking either to himself or to his friends — |
| 23 | He had to justify himself somehow , both to himself and to the public . |
| 24 | The difference with Bill was that he had the power to be able to make his fantasy come true and that he lacked the self control , and the basic decency to say ‘ no ’ to himself and to Mandy . |
| 25 | All over the world , mystics had told the adept that he must die to himself and to all that he knows ; he must experience annihilation and extinction , which the Sufis call 'fana . |
| 26 | Dangerous , that was , to himself and to the snoring Matchsticks beside him . |
| 27 | He is indeed more object than subject , both to himself and to those among whom he has arrived . |
| 28 | Only a year ago the Shah had seemed to himself and to his allies to be utterly secure . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |