Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pray for men and women in lands where there is hatred of one group for another , that their hearts may be turned to yourself in the search for righteousness and truth . |
| 2 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 3 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 4 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 5 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |
| 6 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 7 | The contemplation on the Godhead is an explanation of the Trinity as God , the original creative power , who enjoys the goodness of company in the Son whose wisdom is bound to himself by the love which is the Holy Ghost . |
| 8 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 9 | I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger . |
| 10 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |