Example sentences of "to himself [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Was he referring to himself or to her ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first line is the voice of one man talking either to himself or to his friends — |
| 12 | He had to justify himself somehow , both to himself and to the public . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dangerous , that was , to himself and to the snoring Matchsticks beside him . |
| 16 | He is indeed more object than subject , both to himself and to those among whom he has arrived . |
| 17 | Only a year ago the Shah had seemed to himself and to his allies to be utterly secure . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Indifferent to himself and to others . |
| 21 | Put into precise terms , one can say that , in clinical and applied psychoanalysis , the individualistic fallacy alleges that the individual 's Oedipus complex is wholly explicable by reference to himself and to his family situation , without regard to the history of that complex or to the origins of the family and of human psychological structures as a whole . |
| 22 | an event that caused considerable anxiety to himself and to his girlfriend ( patient E22 ) who was P cepacia-negative . |
| 23 | Taken off by it in an acute , short , not often painful illness , the old man escapes those ‘ cold gradations of decay ’ so distressing to himself and to his friends . ’ |
| 24 | He wanted to prove to himself and to others this sort of crime could be successfully committed . |
| 25 | As though you know erm after all head known all about it this is the to himself and by doing that then abbreviated then , that 's when the reader was supposed to take it as a thought process rather than a |