Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning to leave he saw a jiffy-bag of formidable bulk addressed to himself in Sixsmith 's tremulous hand . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 4 | There are things that I have thought to myself about these . |
| 5 | She was a strange child , and often talked to herself like this . |
| 6 | Henry himself never had anything interesting to do ) , he squeezed close to the wall and coughed to himself in an extra drab way . |
| 7 | He stood flexing the body he had preserved to himself by hard exercise and the austere living that wore so deceptive a cloak of luxury . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | E. McTaggart , in The Nature of Existence , refers to Russell as having led him ‘ to accept the view that the self is known to itself by direct perception ’ . |
| 11 | Some shivered in the cold breeze of change : others struck out boldly , with a sense of freedom , glad to be unencumbered by out-of-date gear and padding , glad to cast off notions that had never seemed to themselves to be smart or necessary : naked into the stream , exhilarated , the new emerging race . |
| 12 | These men referred to themselves as the ‘ Hollywood Hellraisers ’ . |
| 13 | Its members referred to themselves as Nazareans . |
| 14 | In 1899 he was a guest at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and caused the normally sombre gathering to explode in laughter : the speaker before him had referred to himself as ‘ a humble Presbyterian ’ . |
| 15 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |
| 16 | It was the first time she had ever referred to herself as Jake 's sister . |
| 17 | She had never even referred to herself as his stepsister before ! |
| 18 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 19 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 20 | It is uncertain , however , that the motives ascribed to themselves by MacRoberts and MacRoberts are common to others . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 23 | British strategists decided the tribes were better left to themselves in ‘ human nature reserves ’ , to use the words of one military diarist of the time . |
| 24 | Left to themselves in Mainz , the four Americans consulted . |
| 25 | Left to themselves by the German bourgeoisie — because in German usage ‘ sister ’ was the accepted genteelism for ‘ mistress ’ — the Wordsworths declined into misery and homesickness . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In fact , once taxes had been paid to Istanbul , Egypt was largely left to itself to be governed — and increasingly misgoverned — by an Ottoman-mamluk military oligarchy . |
| 28 | On Sept. 6 the military authorities in Myanma arrested two high-ranking members of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , acting chair Kyi Maung and Chit Khaing , on charges of " passing state evidence that they should have kept to themselves to an unconcerned person " . |
| 29 | She had looked forward to long satisfying talks with him , when she could tell all about her feelings and all the worries she had kept to herself for so long , but it was not easy for Joe to spend time alone with her . |
| 30 | Have you ever listened to yourself on a tape-recorder ? |