Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another chap , he 's a big name in a church in Buckley he was a an old neighbour of ours and I never liked cos he used to himself with a bowler hat on they are only back twenty years , you know , bowler hats ! |
| 2 | Apparently acting in protest at the economic blockade , a 52-year-old Lithuanian factory worker , Stanislovas Zhamaitis , committed suicide by setting fire to himself outside the Bolshoi Theatre in the centre of Moscow on April 26 . |
| 3 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 4 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 5 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |
| 6 | A MAN was in hospital yesterday suffering from serious burns after setting fire to himself in a London immigration office , the Home Office said . |
| 7 | Mr Jamaitis had set fire to himself in a Moscow square . |
| 8 | I 'm smiling to myself at the kitchen table now . |
| 9 | They avoid making enemies , and so cut down on threats to themselves in the office jungle . |
| 10 | When you 're criticised by others , there can be great solace in thinking quietly to yourself about the flip side of the description . |