Example sentences of "[verb] to himself [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in what seemed a particularly unconventional technique at the time , Michel Butor , in La Modification ( 1957 ) , employs a second-person narrative as a means , apparently , of voicing the monologue which Léon Delmont is conducting with himself as he travels from Paris to Rome to join his mistress , explaining to himself the history of his affair and anticipating how it will resolve itself . |
| 2 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 3 | The pope applied to himself the words of Christ , ‘ He that heareth you heareth me ’ . |
| 4 | Because — no harm in saying it once again — this is the essence of the private-eye novel : that its hero actively goes out and grabs to himself the facts that he needs . |
| 5 | ‘ He was highly strung , easily depressed , ’ he said , ‘ but used to go round the theatre chanting to himself the words — which I believe he learned from Frank Finlay , who played his father in the play — ’ I must be resilient , resilient ! ’ |
| 6 | Why does he arrogate to himself the claim to know more about patient care than all those professionals ? |
| 7 | In Ellis v. John Stenning & Son A sold land to B , reserving to himself the right to cut and sell the uncut timber on the land . |
| 8 | So , at the point when the meditator ends in prayer that he may always keep this passion in mind , he presents to himself an image which might easily coincide with that on a rood-screen , or painted panel . |
| 9 | He would smile to himself every time he heard this as they came to sign their contracts . |
| 10 | He who binds to himself a joy |
| 11 | Wistfully , Jaq quoted to himself the words of an ancient leader of the middle kingdom on bygone Earth : ‘ In the land of a thousand million people , what does the death of one million of these count in the cause of purity ? ’ |