Example sentences of "to [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 2 | A man has set fire to himself outside the Houses of Parliament in protest at the Bosnian situation . |
| 3 | On 1 March 1989 , a group of British skiers were horrified to see a man set fire to himself on the ski-slopes outside Braşov . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The last thing she wanted was to be a pawn between the two of them , and was n't that just what Rune had made her by drawing deliberate attention to himself on the stage before making an exhibition of both of them ? |
| 6 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 7 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 8 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 9 | This action was very strange because Andries not only attracted a lot of attention to himself by the manner of his purchase but also the dinghy had a serial number on it which made it instantly traceable . |
| 10 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 11 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 12 | If you are a newcomer to the product , Symphony now provides a very good introduction to itself in the form of its online tutorial . |
| 13 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you ca n't say he did n't warn you , ’ she muttered to herself during the course of Monday . |
| 15 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 16 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 17 | An hour to myself without the children on Sunday |
| 18 | When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " . |
| 19 | This way she can guarantee her customers that they will have all the surrounding thousands of acres of bush totally to themselves for the duration of their stay . |
| 20 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
| 21 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 22 | You 're going to be happiest closer to home now , Cancer and you 'll need time to yourself at the beginning of June . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There is also , in the fabric of the study method , the personal communication from you to yourself in the form of notes . |
| 25 | MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast |